I’m running KDE/Wayland (does the same with Xorg too) on Debian 12 Bookworm/stable and while using the system all of a sudden the screen became “larger” than the actual screen – like I was using some sort of “virtual desktop.”
I’ve tried resetting the monitor size in KDE’s System Settings → Display
and Monitor settings, but that doesn’t work.
I’ve tested and tweaked ALL of the other setting I’ve found and thought
might be relevant in KDE’s System Settings but no luck there.
Can anyone suggest on how to “reset” my desktop/monitor? Thanks in advance! (TIA)
That means KDE Plasma 5.27 if I am not mistaken, and debian does not ship our maintenance packages (ironically).
This version isn’t supported anymore, and this sounds like something that should be fixed in newer versions.
Sorry I can only recommend you to upgrade.
You might try renaming/removing ~/.local/share/kscreen and logging out. It is what I do when my virtual machine’s screen size gets out of whack in virt-manager.
It should reset the monitor settings, but if this happens to be a video driver issue, this might not be helpful.
The problem was a setting the System Settings → Workspace Behavior → Desktop Effects → and then under Accessibility, the Zoom option. Unselect the Zoom option and it cured my problem.