MM not filling screen

sdetweil

@reallykeene so, lets back up one step, and try the original main.css

do

cd ~/MagicMirror/css
mv main.css save-main.css
cd ..
git checkout css/main.css

then restart MM

and show us the display output…

reallykeene

@sdetweil I got a fatal: not a git repository. It then only shows my traffic module with the screen black. I still have the bar of the desktop to the right.

sdetweil

@reallykeene how did you install MM? git clone? or zip file?

reallykeene

@sdetweil git clone

It was on another monitor. I’ve just changed to a TV for the display.

Should I reboot the operating system for the pie on the new screen?

sdetweil

@reallykeene yes, when u change screens by moving cable, after boot the hardware doesn’t always get it right
(my pi 4 cannot see the second display if not present at power on)

I had a typo in my commands above (lowercase m in MagicMirror)

reallykeene

@sdetweil Is there an easy way to do that?

The only way I know would be to save all my work onto a hard drive and then resetting the pie from scratch. I’m pretty new to this.

sdetweil

@reallykeene won’t lose anything on pi, with sd card…

sudo shutdown reboot

for restart, if it works, good…

if need power off

sudo shutdown now -h
wait til light goes off

power back on (however u do that… pull/re-insert power cord, use switch)

reallykeene

@sdetweil The desktop rebooted to the full size of the screen correctly. But the magic mirror still looks like the original picture and it’s not stretching to the full size of the screen in width.

sdetweil

@reallykeene try the updated commands above

reallykeene

@sdetweil OK I figured it out! I did a little more reading on the raspberry pi website. I had the HDMI cord plugged into HDMI one on the actual raspberry pi and was having issues with the resolutions on the screen sizes. Once I did a full reset and plugged in the HDMI 0 I was able to adjust the screen to fit the TV