I dropped my laptop a few weeks back, a 14 inch Lenovo. The screen is inconsistently showing damaged though there is a two inch portion in the top left corner which has got a bit worse. I was wondering if it's somehow possible to treat the functioning area as if it's the whole screen -it's still a 12 or 11.5 inch laptop's worth of screen.

I can't spare the money for a replacement screen or laptop (though annoyingly I've junked two in recent memory that could have been salvaged).

It occurs to me I could set PCMANFM to use that part of the screen and use OpenBox or FluxBox, not sure if that would create new problems. If this happened to a desktop's monitor it'd be pretty simple but maybe the adjustments can be simulated somehow?

The resolution is 1366 x 768. It looks really as if just over a fifth of the width in the top left is gone. (Edit) I've now added xrandr --output eDP --fb 1066x768 --transform 1,0,-300,0,1,0,0,0,1 & to the Fluxbox startup file which is a partial solution but individual programs seem independent of xrandr and so I'm having to manually set their position and size with FluxBox - if I try to maximise any program it still thinks it's on a 1366x768 screen.

I'm using the Cinnamon edition of Linux Mint 20 or 21 at present.

Thanks.

Hi,

You could use an external monitor with the Laptop.

Hope this helps.