Desktop zoom not working for Fedora-8

[Robin Laing]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 18:23 -0400, William Perkins wrote:
>> There is a feature on X windows when used in Fedora-7 that allowed
>> you to zoom the desktop in and out using ctrl-alt-plus and ctrl-alt-minus.
>> This feature does not work with the Fedora-8 version of X windows.  This 
>> feture does not even work with the same xorg.conf file that was used with 
>> Fedora-7.
>>
>> This is show stopper for us.  Our vision impaired users are screaming bloody
>> murder about not being able to use this feature with Fedora-8.  We have 
>> had to install Fedora-7 in place of Fedora-8 on those systems, and we will 
>> have to do this Fedora-7 install on all of our servers in order to have 
>> all systems using the same distribution version of Linux.
>>
>> We understand a change to the Xorg software was made to the Fedora-8 
>> version to accommodate users of multiple displays.  This change apparently 
>> broke the Zoom feature and on the Fedora-8 distribution the Zoom feature 
>> was disabled.  Apparently there is a patch to the X windows server that 
>> can be used to re-enable the Zoom feature, but there appears to be no 
>> information available that documents how you get this patch and implement 
>> the feature.
>>
>> We will be testing Fedora-9 when it is released to see if the Zoom feature 
>> has been fixed.  Otherwise, we will continue to use Fedora-7 as long as we 
>> can until an alternative software distribution can be found,  Our having 
>> to use Fedora-7 over Fedora-8 puts a real crimp in our development effort.
>>
>> Bill
>>
> Thhere is something srang going on. ctrl-+ and ctrl - will magnify and
> shrink a window. Are you talaking about this or are you referring to the
> capabilities you get from: System->Personal->Associative Technologies?
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The CTRL+ALT+(NUM +/-) are for the whole screen.  Not just a window.

Handy if you are looking at a web page that has small graphics on them 
or just aging eyes like I do and need to see things bigger than normal.


It is related to the x-server.

FWIW, it isn't working on my F8 machine with a Nvidia video card.

I just looked at my xorg.conf file and I do not have an other resolution 
in it.  I will have to play with the resoultion in the xorg.conf file.

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Robin Laing