open a terminal, and use xrandr
if you just type xrandr it'll display all the resolutions and output modes that you can see and mark a display preferred one.  If is shows the display as being VGA1, then the final command would look something like:
xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1680x1050

This is also just a first troubleshooting step--there could be a lot of other things wrong with the configuration of your machine leading to this behavior, but if this works then it's a really easy problem to fix.


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:48 AM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:
On my new Dell laptop with Linux Mint, the display does not fill the
available screen space. There is a 1/4" black band on both sides, top and
bottom.

How can I correct this?

System settings > Display and monitor ... does not provide any options
for setting display resolution or changing the size of the display
window.




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