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. -- ======================================================================= Is this going to involve RAW human ecstasy? ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
