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? > -- ======================================================================= It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. -- Leonardo da Vinci ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
