About zooming in or out, including magnification tools.
Questions tagged [zooming]
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How can I disable Alt-Scroll zoom in XFCE4 (Xubuntu)
In XFCE4 desktop environments, alt+scroll wheel zooms my entire desktop. I'm finding this very annoying because sometimes I flick the scroll wheel to go to the top of a document then press the alt key for a some unrelated keyboard shortcut and find…
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How to keep zoomlevel in Evince constant after clicking a link?
I really love how Evince works but this little thing is annoying me so much. When I select a title or a subtitle from the table of contents it shifts the zoom. On windows it was just easy as pie with Foxit but its Linux version really needs time.
c.k.
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How to zoom in & zoom out
While using 10.04 and the previous versions I used to put Ctrl+F6 to zoom in and subsequently Ctrl+F7 to zoom out. Now (using 11.10, Unity) I can't even find the options to zoom in and zoom out in the "keyboard shortcuts". I tried "the Magnifier" in…
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How to zoom in and out of text in Gedit?
I am using Ubuntu 11.10. This seems to be an easy question, yet I cannot find an answer anywhere.
On pre-unity Ubuntu, I was using gedit-zoom plugin to zoom text in editor window in/out, either with Ctrl++/-, or by holding Ctrl+ scrolling…
Greg V.
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Can evince pdf reader be setup to do larger zoom than 400%?
PDF documents are usually vector graphics and can be zoomed infinitely. Some PDFs like infographics contain a lot of information and need a large zoom to read them. Why can evince not zoom over 400%? Can it be set up to do a deeper zoom?
arauzo
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Why is LibreOffice so slow when used in Ubuntu 16.04?
The Problem
I'm using LibreOffice 5.0.6.3 in Ubuntu 16.04, and the program is considerably slower than in e.g. Windows 8.1 and Debian 8.
This shows up in particular when I change the zoom level in larger documents below 200%.
Above 200% (e.g. from…
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Terminal Command to Zoom
I've been looking for this for a while, and I can't find it anywhere.
I need to be able to zoom (equivalent of ctrl + shift + '+') via the terminal. I've tried xdotool, but do not know how to get it to register '+' (or the = key).
This is very…
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How to activate super+scroll to zoom?
In maverick, and I belive many old ubuntus, one could zoom in and out by holding super and scrolling with the mouse, but that doesn't work in Natty. How do you activate that again?
Konstapel Kask
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Is it possible to have different zoom for each display for dual-display configuration?
It seems for me like it isn't possible, as zoom is changed for both displays simultaneous in "Displays" tool.
ubuntu 18.04, nvidia, one display 4K other 2K
I want to have 200% zoom on 4K display and 100% on 2K display so "resolutions" are equal
Any…
mirec
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Control compiz zoom from the command line
I'm downstairs on my phone trying to VNC into my desktop upstairs but earlier today, I zoomed in with compiz on one of my screens so it makes using that screen over VNC almost impossible.
Now I could go upstairs... But I'm lazy!
Does anybody know a…
Oli
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How can I zoom one specific window in KDE?
In my high resolution laptop display I defined the font to 230 dpi so everything looks fine but some apps that are running in java.
Is it possible to display a specific desired window scaled in double size?
For example: define that only the…
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Nautilus - How to apply Zoom on the filenames? Not just on the thumbnails
I'm looking to edit the way for nautilus to handle the zoom.
Since Ubuntu 13.04, when you use the zoom in nautilus it only changes the thumbnails/icons size, and the filename text stay the same.
Is there a way to make the zoom function change the…
Romain Fluttaz
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Is there a better way to zoom in?
I'm looking for a better way to zoom in, rather than using the default accessibility zoom in option because it's really buggy. Is there a better alternative?
Edit: Just to clarify, I'm talking about the screen/system/whatever zoom in, not the…
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Zoom desktop tool for Ubuntu 14
I need a "zoom tool" for the entire screen because I want to control a bar with the mouse (time bar, like youtube) from an web-based audio player. The problem is that this player is too small and when I try to zoom-in (with Ctrl+Mouse Wheel), all…
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Is there anything that allows me to smoothly zoom in with a trackpad
I've googled to hell and back about this and I cannot find any information.
Is there
A browser
An Extension
Any program
That allows me to smoothly zoom a Webpage with a pinching gesture on my trackpad? My laptop supports multitouch and I have a…
