how to adjust desktop?

[chaero]

Hi everyone,

I just switched to LinuxMint and the first impressions are good. I just did not find out yet where to adjust the desktop settings? I really would appreciate it if somebody would point me to it.
The desktop is not fully displayed in my monitor, this is a bit annoying because I can not see the close-buttons of the windows...
I know where you could change these settings in openSuse, but I did not found them in LinuxMint yet. Do you have to enable some options or such in the Xserver-preferences???
Thanks in advance.

[BlahBlah_X]

You mean you want to change the desktop resolution?

Ok.

In the MintMenu, go to Administration-"XServer-Xorg" where you can change the resolution to the correct one.

Note: If you have a certain Nvidia or ATI card, this might not work. In this case, run envy ('sudo envy' in a terminal or from the mintmenu) and install the drivers.

[chaero]

No, the resolution is correct.
Unfortunately the visible desktop starts about 20px from the left edge of the monitor, so it goes about 20px behind the right edge. So I just want to move the desktop this 20px more to the left, that it is all visible. I did not find out yet where to adjust this.

[linuxviolin]

It's not the settings of your screen, in the OSD? You should be able to set the size of the image on your screen with them.

[chaero]

probably you mean the right thing, but I don't know what you exactly mean by OSD. Please could you give me an idiot-safe celena-main-menu->admin->...-pointer?

[msgnomer]

Do you have buttons on your monitor to adjust it?

[linuxviolin]

As msgnomer says, I wanted to speak of a menu that appears on your screen with one or more buttons on your monitor. With it you can usually do different settings including image size, its position, etc.

[chaero]

Yes, I know adjusting the monitor settings would be a possibility. But unfortunately, sometimes I have to still use Windows. And Windows always fits perfectly without messing around with the monitor settings. So actually I do not want to change it everytime I boot another OS.
I thought there might be an option like you have with openSuse, but I did not found it yet.

[chaero]

Okay maybe it's a bit more to it, than I thought at first:
With Windows and openSuse I had resolution 1024x768 and all fitted normally into the monitor. Now I have adjusted the visible desktop with the monitor settings, but still I don't see about 20px at the right side. So it is actually too big for my monitor. But why? I never had such problems with the resolution before. Could anybody give me a hint, where to look? I guess, maybe it is a common problem?

[chaero]

Ok, I guess I solved my silly little problem: I played around with the monitor settings and now everything is quite fine. But nevertheless, thanks for the quick answers.