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#1 2015-04-03 11:48:47
- feklee
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Window manager that can scale individual window or virtual desktop?
Xfig doesn't work well on high DPI screens, especially for users whose vision is not that great. The problem is that there is no configuration option to scale elements such as lines.
I see two ways to solve the problem:
Scale the Xfig window.
Scale the virtual desktop on which Xfig is running. Other applications would be running on virtual desktops that are not scaled.
Following a suggestion in the awesome mailing list, I looked into Wayland plus a compositing window manager. However, XWayland, the X compatibility layer, has issues with Xfig. So I guess that for now I’m stuck with X.org, and a window manager compatible with the X composite extension.
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#2 2015-04-03 12:22:20
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Re: Window manager that can scale individual window or virtual desktop?
Have you tried GNOME 3? I think it has decent accessibility support, e.g
https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/IntroATs
http://blog.thismagpie.com/2013/12/scal … -view.html (older post)
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#3 2015-04-03 12:32:17
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Re: Window manager that can scale individual window or virtual desktop?
Thanks for the suggestion @Alad. However, I'm not looking for accessibility stuff. The user possibly even has above average vision, but he's not twenty anymore. He's turning eighty this year. Furthermore, I'm not looking for a desktop environment. A highly configurable floating WM with virtual desktops is all that's needed. Applications will be started from the command line. There will be no desktop and no menu.
At the moment, I would like to know which WMs support displaying individual windows scaled up, or - alternatively - support scaling individual virtual desktops.
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#4 2015-04-03 21:38:44
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Re: Window manager that can scale individual window or virtual desktop?
Take a look at e16 (Enlightenment 16)
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#5 2015-04-03 22:22:14
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Re: Window manager that can scale individual window or virtual desktop?
I would like to know which WMs support displaying individual windows scaled up, or - alternatively - support scaling individual virtual desktops.
None. This is simply - by definition - not in the wheelhouse of a window manager. A window manager can scale a window in the sense that it can make the window larger or smaller, but (unless the client program responds to this separately) this will not change the size of any of the content of the window: window managers do not affect the content of windows.
A widget toolkit could do this - at least for any content that uses that toolkit.
A compositor could also do this, and this could be entirely independent of whether a toolkit was used.
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#6 2015-04-04 10:16:21
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Re: Window manager that can scale individual window or virtual desktop?
Take a look at e16 (Enlightenment 16)
Interesting. That's an old version of Enlightenment. Newer versions don't offer that feature? Could you provide a link to more information?
Update, got a reply from Rasterman: "not possible in x11 due to input always being 1:1. we could scale the pixels
but your input would still think it has the original sized window as input dosnt go through the wm."
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#7 2015-04-04 21:24:22
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Re: Window manager that can scale individual window or virtual desktop?
Possible solutions:
Pervert: Set up a virtual machine just for Xfig, then use xrandr to scale the desktop inside of the virtual machine.
Saner: Run Xfig in a VNC server (or NX), then connect with a client that supports scaling, e.g. gtk-vnc.
Could be nice: Run Xfig within Xephyr, an X server that runs in a window within X. However, scaling with xrandr doesn't work.
Untested: Use the Compiz Ezoom plugin to scale part of the screen. One would somehow need to prevent windows from being positioned outside of the zoomed area, and also restrict mouse movement.
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