Running Debian Sid, Plasma 6.5 current for Sid on a Thinkpad T480. Suddenly the display is larger than the screen. I ran an update, and now I cannot size the display to fit the screen. The display is ~20% or so larger than the screen, regardless of what resolution and/or scaling I select. This happens in both wayland and X11, but the display is fine using XFCE. I don’t want to use XFCE, but Plasma is broken for me. The update included several libk6* packages, IIRC, but I don’t actually know exactly what was updated. I restored a timeshift backup from before the update, which did not fix the problem. I updated again, with no improvement.
have you tried meta+0?
are you sure you don’t have an icon placed outside the bounds of your screen?
what happens if you create a new user?
Aha! Meta+0 did the job. I hadn’t heard of that before. I’m not sure how the issue happened, but I would hazard a wild guess that I accidentally pressed Meta+ something. I’m not sure I want to randomly press combos just to see what happens. 
you can go to settings > desktop effects > accessibility
and find both zoom and magnifier have the same keyboard shortcuts for enlarging Meta++ or shrinking Meta+- your view of the desktop, with Meta+0 being the reset back to 100%
these only work with keys on the regular keyboard, not with the keys on the keypad
Okay, thanks. I’ve been using Plasma for awhile, but never needed to use zoom. It’s a good day, I learned something new.
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