From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N2rrV-000260-70 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:37:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 429C7E0885; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:37:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from QMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.48]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF15E0885 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:37:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.71]) by QMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id xoq91c00B1Y3wxoA5vdkb7; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:37:44 +0000 Received: from ajax.firstbooks ([68.43.220.249]) by OMTA15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id xvdj1c0025PTC9g8bvdjDH; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:37:44 +0000 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:37:36 -0400 From: Frank Peters To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Problems With Latest Xorg-server-1.7.1 Message-Id: <20091027153736.968a7756.frank.peters@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20091027143146.016930ff.frank.peters@comcast.net> References: <20091027143146.016930ff.frank.peters@comcast.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c2ccb3a0-afba-4d18-9a0d-bc0df558c6c2 X-Archives-Hash: a60a53939851b8d212cd61615a424402 On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:31:46 -0400 Frank Peters wrote: > > The zoom key issue, however, is a different matter. At first > I thought that using xrandr to change screen resolutions would > be an adequate substitute. Xrandr does work, but the resulting > screen layout is much different... > I found a better substitute than xandr for this problem: xvidtune. Xvidtune allows stepping through the various modes without destroying the virtual desktop. Using xvidtune is not as quick and easy as the zoom keys but at least the zoom functionality is restored. Until this problem is resolved by Xorg I will have what I need. Frank Peters