Desktop zoom not working for Fedora-8

[William Perkins]

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

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William M. Perkins                   E-mail - wmp at grnwood.net
The Greenwood                        UNIX Systems Administration
Reston, Virginia                     (Solaris, Linux, HP-UX)