Desktop zoom not working for Fedora-8

[Aaron Konstam]

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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