[SOLVED] Mint 20.1 oversized main menu when using external monitor

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[SOLVED] Mint 20.1 oversized main menu when using external monitor

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Hi,

Both my external monitor and the internal laptop display support 3840 x 2160 resolution.
As the internal display is only 15" I scale it to 200% to become effective resolution 1920 x 1080.
The external monitor is 27", so I want to keep it at 2560 x 1440 unscaled and arranged on top of the laptop display.

Whenever I plug-in the external monitor (either on the display port or on the HDMI) and click on the Mint menu - the menu panel is sized and positioned incorrectly end shows partially in the external monitor.

The only way I can keep it the same as without the external monitor is if I set both to 3840 x 2160 unscaled and set "User interface scale" to "Double (Hi-DPI).

How can I fix this?

inxi -Fxxxrz

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System:    Kernel: 5.8.0-55-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
           Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20SUS08K00 v: ThinkPad P15 Gen 1 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 20SUS08K00 v: SDK0T08861 WIN serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO v: N30ET38W (1.21 ) date: 04/19/2021 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 95.3 Wh condition: 95.3/94.0 Wh (101%) volts: 13.1/11.6 model: LGC 5B10W13958 type: Li-poly 
           serial: <filter> status: Full cycles: 12 
           Device-1: hidpp_battery_8 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse B330/M330/M331 serial: <filter> 
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: 8-Core model: Intel Core i9-10885H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: N/A L1 cache: 512 KiB L2 cache: 16.0 MiB 
           L3 cache: 16.0 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 76800 
           Speed: 3113 MHz min/max: 800/5300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2276 2: 2368 3: 2223 4: 2299 5: 2444 6: 2315 7: 2385 
           8: 2470 9: 2406 10: 2320 11: 2499 12: 2585 13: 2536 14: 2492 15: 2522 16: 2396 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:9bc4 
           Device-2: NVIDIA TU106GLM [Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia v: 460.80 bus ID: 01:00.0 
           chip ID: 10de:1f36 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa 
           resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz, 3840x2160~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 
           chip ID: 8086:06c8 
           Device-2: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
           chip ID: 10de:10f9 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-55-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 4000 bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:06f0 
           IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: efa0 bus ID: 00:1f.6 
           chip ID: 8086:0d4c 
           IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-2: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-3: virbr0-nic state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 211.24 GiB (22.1%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLB1T0HBLR-000L7 size: 953.87 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 
           serial: <filter> rev: 5M2QEXF7 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 937.40 GiB used: 211.23 GiB (22.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: 47.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2471 fan-2: 2266 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list 
           1: deb https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ focal-pgdg main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linuxuprising-apps-focal.list 
           1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxuprising/apps/ubuntu focal main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oem-sutton.simon-addison-meta.list 
           1: deb http://lenovo.archive.canonical.com/ focal sutton
           2: deb http://lenovo.archive.canonical.com/ focal sutton.simon
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
           1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyssa main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
           2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
           3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/remmina-ppa-team-remmina-next-focal.list 
           1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next/ubuntu focal main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/team-xbmc-ppa-focal.list 
           1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
Info:      Processes: 399 Uptime: 3d 1h 02m Memory: 31.00 GiB used: 10.32 GiB (33.3%) Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 
           Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 8/9 Shell: bash (sudo) v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38
Here is part of the screenshot of the entire system - the laptop display ends where the vertical black band ends at the bottom-right portion of the snippet and the external monitor begins where the light-green color of the mint forum begins:
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This has been solved in Mint 20.2
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Re: Mint 20.1 oversized main menu when using external monitor

Post by psg9196 »

This has been fixed in 20.3 - great work Linux Mint people!
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Re: [SOLVED] Mint 20.1 oversized main menu when using external monitor

Post by Larry78723 »

What 20.3????
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