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 1N2swg-0001vf-AZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:47:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD034E071C; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:47:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay.phys.ualberta.ca (relay.phys.ualberta.ca [129.128.7.238]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A809DE071C for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:47:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webmail.phys.ualberta.ca ([129.128.7.21]:20891 "EHLO webmail.phys.ualberta.ca" TLS-CIPHER: ) by relay.phys.ualberta.ca with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:46:28 -0600 Received: (from web-proxy@localhost) by webmail.phys.ualberta.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id n9RKkwK25858; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:46:59 -0600 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:46:59 -0600 Message-Id: <200910272046.n9RKkwK25858@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> X-Authentication-Warning: webmail.phys.ualberta.ca: web-proxy set sender to pogosyan@Phys.UAlberta.CA using -f From: "Dmitri Pogosyan" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Problems With Latest Xorg-server-1.7.1 X-Mailer: Open WebMail 1.50 beta 20011007 X-OriginatingIP: 129.128.241.191 (pogosyan) 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=iso-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 45c755d0-c198-4116-ac56-48d4e56d5e08 X-Archives-Hash: cbf32ad2f7cddb8f63adb1883822f5ea > 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 Petersэ xvidtune, old friend ! Remember using it in 1998, while computing scan modes for my first monitor on Linux system :) -- Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics Professor University of Alberta tel 1-780-492-2150 11322 - 89 Avenue fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G7, CANADA