Don Graham |
04-28-2014 06:15 AM |
Need Desktop to fit wide screen Monitor 27'
Well the title says it all. About four weeks ago I we possessed my ransom ware. It is the bad one. The child porn one. At that time I was on a HP desktop running Windows 7-64. That gave me the perfect chance to switch to Linux. I went out and bought a new HP Pavilion desktop and lap top. Both came with Ubuntu 12.04 installed. I crashed the desktop in two days. LOL!! The way I did it was all new-bee. I had an update window pop up on my screen. In that window there were five updates. So I pushed install. What I had not noticed was that window had a scroll bar on it. The total amount of update amounted to 165. Half way through the install my OS crashed never to live again. So I opened my laptop and download a new Ubuntu 12.04. Installed it on a (live) USB stick and installed a new OS. With in a week I crashed that OS trying to upgrade to 14.04. You guessed it ! I downloaded Ubuntu 14.04 to a live stick and installed it. I tell these story's here, to help my fellow new-bees not make the same mistakes.
Now to the problem at hand. I am running my HP/Ubuntu on a 27 inch monitor. This TV/monitor has an HP computer plug on the back (don't know the name of that plug)I have spent all day reading forums/Google trying to find an answer. On how I can make my desktop go wide screen. As it stands right now. I have four inches of black screen on each side of the screen.All you gear head out there. Take it easy on me with your explanations. If you have an answers for me. Please do a step by step. You know "KISS". I have used all the tools that came with my OS. I think I am going to have to use the terminal on this one.
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