When connecting an external monitor to a laptop running Ubuntu 20.04, the "displayed screen" extends beyond the physical screen, implying that the top right of the display (containing the ubuntu menu/power-off) is not visible.
It looks like Ubuntu believes the monitor is bigger than it is? The highest resolution is offered with ratio 16:10, so could it be that my monitor is actually not 16:10? If I go for other lower resolution with different ratios, I can see the full "displayed workspace", yet those ratios are really bad and leave 30% of the screen space unused.
The available resolutions, shown by 'xrandr', together with their ratio, are: 1680/1050 = 1.6, 1280/1024 = 1.25, 1280/960 = 1.33, 1152/864 = 1.33,
1024/768 = 1.33, 832/624 = 1.33, 800/600 = 1.33, 640/480 = 1.33,
720/400 = 1.8
What should I do?
Taking a screenshot to illustrate does not help much as the screenshot captures the full space, but here is an artistic attempt to explain visually:
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