Is it possible to turn off damaged part of my Mac screen?

spisteker

Last night, I closed my Mac A1707 (2016 15 inch Pro retina with touch bar) but as I was closing it, part of the charging cable got caught between the keyboard and the screen and the force crushed part of my notebook's LCD. As a result, there is one of those ink blotch things on the bottom right of my screen and about 1cm of lines travel upwards to the top of the screen and leftwards all the way to the left of the screen.

Bottom line is that the the bottom one cm of the screen and last 1cm on the right of the screen are ruined with these lines.

My question, is it possible to 'turn off' this part of the screen altogether and make the part of the screen that is actually on and part of the display smaller.

Basically, I wish to reduce my 15inches of display to about 14inches with the last inch switched off. This is somewhat possible with televisions when changing the aspect ration settings.

To illustrate this, I have included a crude image of what the screen looks like. You can imagine the black lines on the sides are the broken parts of the screen. I wish to 'switch off' any part of the screen where these black lines fall and compact the display into the functioning white part.

https:// postimg.org/ image/yq7wkadgd/

Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks

whiterebel

I just had a look at the display settings, which I thought might do it, but it doesn't. I don't know of anything else that might do it, unless there is specialist software out there.

All My Stars Aligned

I think your one really option here is to resize the windows of whatever applications your being. I don't think you can alter the aspect ratio on a macbook.

Sad Professor

I'm sure this is possible but not easy and would would require messing around with system files in Terminal, which thanks to Apple's system integrity protection introduced in El Capitan is a total pain in the arse these days. I recently was trying to modify a system plist file to so my Mac would show up on some stupid misbehaving linux network. I would have had to reboot in safe mode, disable SIP, reboot into Mac OS, modify the file, reboot in safe mode again, re-enable SIP, reboot again, and probably have to do the whole thing all over again after a future update while also taking the risk of typing the wrong thing and hosing my whole installation. I decided it wasn't worth the hassle.

Unless you are handy with the command line and have a lot of patience, I'd suggest staying away. Maybe there's an easier option out there, like a utility or something that will do it for you, but I doubt any of them are trustworthy. Either learn to live with it or get the screen replaced would be my advice. The latter option might be for the best. In its current state it will void the warranty and reduce the resale value. And it might get worse!

whippet

there is a very good chance that the crack in the screen will leak and eventually consume the vast majority of the display. Best to suck it up and get it replaced