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Second screen is zoomed in

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I'm having trouble with a second screen on my laptop.

So I found a TV screen somewhere (Samsung) and tried plugging it into my laptop, it does work (as in I get an image) the only problem is that it is zoomed in to far. I'd guess that 5-10% of the screen gets cut off (at the top, bottom, right and left). I had seen some advice on similar posts about xrandr but am unable to fix it, does anyone have advice on how to fix such problems (or in other words, how can I shift the image slightly down and to the right and downscale the image slightly too)?

Here is an image to show the cutoff problem here is an image to show the problem

If anyone has advice on things I can try to fix this (or possibly plugins that can deal with this) then I'd gladly hear it! :-D

Also the output of of xrandr -q if that is useful:

brendan@brevibo:~$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
   1920x1080     59.98 +  59.97    59.96    59.93* 
   1680x1050     59.95    59.88  
   1600x1024     60.17  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1600x900      59.99    59.94    59.95    59.82  
   1280x1024     60.02  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1400x900      59.96    59.88  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1440x810      60.00    59.97  
   1368x768      59.88    59.85  
   1360x768      59.80    59.96  
   1280x800      59.99    59.97    59.81    59.91  
   1152x864      60.00  
   1280x720      60.00    59.99    59.86    59.74  
   1024x768      60.04    60.00  
   960x720       60.00  
   928x696       60.05  
   896x672       60.01  
   1024x576      59.95    59.96    59.90    59.82  
   960x600       59.93    60.00  
   960x540       59.96    59.99    59.63    59.82  
   800x600       60.00    60.32    56.25  
   840x525       60.01    59.88  
   864x486       59.92    59.57  
   800x512       60.17  
   700x525       59.98  
   800x450       59.95    59.82  
   640x512       60.02  
   720x450       59.89  
   700x450       59.96    59.88  
   640x480       60.00    59.94  
   720x405       59.51    58.99  
   684x384       59.88    59.85  
   680x384       59.80    59.96  
   640x400       59.88    59.98  
   576x432       60.06  
   640x360       59.86    59.83    59.84    59.32  
   512x384       60.00  
   512x288       60.00    59.92  
   480x270       59.63    59.82  
   400x300       60.32    56.34  
   432x243       59.92    59.57  
   320x240       60.05  
   360x202       59.51    59.13  
   320x180       59.84    59.32  
HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 160mm x 90mm
   1280x720      60.00 +  50.00    59.94  
   1920x1080i    60.00    50.00    59.94* 
   720x576       50.00  
   720x480       60.00    59.94  
   640x480       60.00    59.94  

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TVs often have the overscan "feature" on by default. The best solutions is ALWAYS at the TV - disabling this "feature" -, never at the OS. Fix Overscan and Underscan on TV <- "Fix Overscan and Underscan on TV" has a chapter about Samsung. Otherwise please consult your user's manual.
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