On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:34:15 +0100 Davide Andreoli <[email protected]>
said:

> 2014-11-24 7:24 GMT+01:00 Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> you sure? I remember a zoom plugin for compiz (zoom the whole desktop)
> 
> and here a video of it :)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3usPs53xrpc

there *WAS* an extension called xevie that allowed input redirection. it has
been dropped quite a while ago from xorg.


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