Desktop zoom not working for Fedora-8

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Apr 2 21:55:44 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 12:55 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> 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?
> > --
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Robin Laing
> 
This does not work for me in f7.
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