Trouble with simply resizing desktop

[dannyboy-alive]

I just installed Ubuntu for first time in years. Trying to escape windows once and for all. Problem is my desktop is bigger than my screen size and I can't seem to simply resize screen or zoom out, so I lose 1 inche and most of the icons as they are off the screen.

I have RX 480 graphics card. Under Nvidia there seemed to be a resize command. I can't find any settings that would enable me to do this.

Can someone help.

[Bucky Ball]

Please post the output of this command:


sudo lshw -C video

Look in Additional Drivers. Is there an NVIDIA driver offered there? Have you installed any drivers manually to this point? If not, don't just yet.

[gordintoronto]

I have seen several cases where this was fixed by changing the settings on the monitor.