My desktop spills outside the screen

Having installed Mountain Lion, my desktop image has now got bigger than the screen it's supposed to fit.  How can I make my it go back to the same size as the screen as it was with Lion?

I have no idea how to remove kwin's config or .kde's.
Btw I have onboard graphics card: Intel HD 4000.
The problem seems to be in the X server rather than in KDE.
trying: xrandr
Comes out with:
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 1366 x 768, current 1368 x 768, maximum 1368 x 768
default connected 1368x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1366x768        0.0 
   1368x768        0.0*
Running: grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Comes with:
[  8350.778] Current Operating System: Linux droid 3.5.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 26 09:14:51 CEST 2012 x86_64
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[  8350.787] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[  8350.788] (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0)
[  8350.788] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
trying: X -configure
creates config file in: /root/xorg.conf.new
then I run: X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
I and a black screen shows up and nothing happens...
I have no idea why trys to load the intel module and fbdev. The only driver i have installed is vesa.
Any suggestions welcomed
p.s: just to elaborate on the issue. Only a part of the top of the desktop is outside the screen. Otherwise part of the left side of the desktop goes out of the left side and comes back from the right side.
here is a photo taken with my phone:
http://fierceseas.com/20120902_100156.jpg
Last edited by JackomoLight (2012-09-04 20:14:16)

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