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I am new to Linux and my laptop is asus gl552vw with two graphic cards, one of them is NVIDIA Gforce. I find both ASUS and NVIDIA have problem on Linux especially in terms of high resolution and all of the icons and screen were too small. So I used an additional Monitor with lower a resolution to work with. After a kernel update the Display became too big even the resolution shows correctly. I tried all the answers from these questions:

Display became too big for the screen after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04

trying to figure out what happened with lightdm and Xorg

Ubuntu 18.04 Displays Issue -> Unknown Display

Everything on the screen is suddenly Huge

But they didn't work for me.

Any help is really appreciated and please remember I am new to Linux.

G. Hak.
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I'm newbie too.. But for me the solution was to install earlier version of nvidia. After upgrade ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04 I installed nvidia-352 (I used this instruction https://dev.to/bobnadler/ubuntu-1804-upgrade-problem-resolutions-1ni0). And faced with 'too big display' problem. So I used this command to know which versions of driver are in repository:

sudo apt-get update && clear && apt-cache search nvidia-[0-9] | grep 'binary driver'

I found nvidia-340. So next I executed this set of command:

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get install nvidia-340 nvidia-settings
sudo nvidia-xconfig

and rebooted system

one more newbie
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The answer by 'one more newbie' was helpful to me but didn't correct my situation. What did work was to change the resolution from 1920x1080 (16:9) to 1680x1050 (16:10) in Applications > Settings > Devices > Displays.

For a listing of the nVidia card and drives use ubuntu-drivers devices to be certain of installing the correct driver.

Zanna
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