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From: "Dmitri Pogosyan" <pogosyan@phys.ualberta.ca>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Problems With Latest Xorg-server-1.7.1
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:46:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910272046.n9RKkwK25858@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> (raw)

> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:31:46 -0400
> Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> 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&#1101;

xvidtune, old friend !  Remember using it in 1998, while computing scan modes
for my first monitor on Linux system :)



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2009-10-27 20:46 Dmitri Pogosyan [this message]
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2009-10-27 18:31 [gentoo-amd64] Problems With Latest Xorg-server-1.7.1 Frank Peters
2009-10-27 19:37 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Frank Peters

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