On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:43:19 +1100 Daniel Kasak <[email protected]> said:

> Greetings.
> 
> Now that everything is composited, would I be crazy to ask for the ability
> to scale windows? Use cases:
> 
> 1) I like playing wizball ( C64 game ) with my son. People around my age
> might remember it. Some genius wrote a Windows version that works perfectly
> in wine. But it runs at around 648x480. I'd prefer to not have to change my
> desktop to be 640x480 to be able to play it nicely.
> 
> 2) Some people have tiny monitors, and my fat-arsed apps don't fit on their
> screen. It would be good if they could 'zoom out' to see the whole window
> at once.
> 
> 3) Similar to above - dealing with projectors that only run at 1024x768,
> etc.
> 
> I guess there are challenges with things like mouse inputs, that would also
> have to be 'scaled' appropriately. But it would be ultra-cool :)
> 
> Maybe it would be easier to implement just scaling the entire display at
> once? I'd be happy with that at this point ... eg hit some key and spin the
> mouse wheel to zoom into whatever I'm pointing at.

this isn't possible in x11 due to not being able to redirect/intercept input.
input is 1:1 to where the window is and goes directly from x1 to client. wm is
not involved at all. in a wayland world, this is possible, but not in x11.

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