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Zoom in and out? [SOLVED]

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 2:58 am
by orrebo
Hi,

I wonder how I will make the zoom in and out function to work?
In standard Linux mint and Ubuntu so do I use superbutton + mousewheel.
Thanks in advanced.

Re: Zoom in and out?

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 4:19 am
by azertywarrior12
Open the Menu, hover over Preferences and click on Keyboard.

On the Keyboard Window click the Shortcuts Tab. Then click on Universal Access.

Change Magnifier Zoom In and Magnifier Zoom Out to your desired shortcut. And if you want to Toggle Magnifier as well.
If you also want to have the ability to increase/decrease only text size with a shortcut, change Increase Text Size and Decrease Text Size.

Re: Zoom in and out?

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 4:24 am
by orrebo
Thanks mate. Works pretty well :)

Zoom in and out using alt-scrollwheel [SOLVED]

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:58 am
by goinglinux
azertywarrior12's solution worked for me, too, using the Cinnamon desktop, but I could only zoom into the left half of my wide-screen laptop monitor. It was this way on Mint 12 and now with Mint 13.

Now, there is a solution that actually gives you REAL alt-mousewheel zoom under Cinnamon, thanks to an update from Tobias Quinn to his package gnome-shell-mousewheel-zoom. It's not in the Mint repos (yet) but you can add a PPA or download the .deb package and install it. (I did the latter.) Here is a link to the instructions on Launchpad.

https://launchpad.net/~tobias-quinn/+archive/gsmz

Re: Zoom in and out using alt-scrollwheel [SOLVED]

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:35 pm
by linux_boy
goinglinux wrote:azertywarrior12's solution worked for me, too, using the Cinnamon desktop, but I could only zoom into the left half of my wide-screen laptop monitor. It was this way on Mint 12 and now with Mint 13.

Now, there is a solution that actually gives you REAL alt-mousewheel zoom under Cinnamon, thanks to an update from Tobias Quinn to his package gnome-shell-mousewheel-zoom. It's not in the Mint repos (yet) but you can add a PPA or download the .deb package and install it. (I did the latter.) Here is a link to the instructions on Launchpad.

https://launchpad.net/~tobias-quinn/+archive/gsmz
I tried to enable screen magnifier feature on my linuxmint nadia cinnamon 64bit. It worked but I lost the nice looking login. I've installed the package https://launchpad.net/~tobias-quinn/+archive/gsmz while installing it asked me to configure options from mdm/gdm I chose mdm. After the installation I logged out and tried to login. The total look has been changed. :(

I installed the .deb package named "gnome-shell-mousewheel-zoom_0.8.0-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb" and that informed me that it is going to remove 1 and install 2 packages.
I have completed the installaton proccess.

How could I restore the previous settings?

It might be defcon or something similar to it

not sure

When I installed and logged out it caused trouble logging in and after reboot I was able to login and that time I shocked with the very uggly looking login screen. The cinnamon native login screen was disappeared.

Somewhere I've found a message during logging in or out saying to check or editing config file to login.

I like original cinnamon desktop settings. So please help me get back my previous desktop settings.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Zoom in and out? [SOLVED]

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 3:47 am
by valent
For me this issue is not solver, I need whole desktop zoom for purpose of recording video tutorials, magnifier is now what I'm looking for. Is there any other solution out there?

Re: Zoom in and out? [SOLVED]

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 4:40 pm
by kaefert
so for Mint 15 & Mint 16 this extra piece of software:
https://github.com/tobiasquinn/gnome-sh ... wheel-zoom
worked well for me. Though now with Mint 17 and Cinnamon 2.x this doesn't work anymore - since now there is no gnome shell running underneath anymore (is that correct?)

Is there another solution? The Keyboard shortcuts that can be configured in Keyboard -> Keyboard shortcuts -> Universal Access -> Zoom In & Out don't seem to do anything for me, neither the defaults nor after changing them. Also I would like to be able to use the mousewheel for it, keys are not as comfortable.

Re: Zoom in and out? [SOLVED]

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 6:57 am
by Oscar799
It is best not to muddle up Main Edition and LMDE questions in the same thread
Causes confusion

Re: Zoom in and out? [SOLVED]

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 4:45 pm
by rickNS
I don't believe any "extra" downloads are required.

This worked for me Control center, keyboard shortcuts, scroll down and click / highlight zoom in, assign a key combo, I used ALT, up arrow, and obviously zoom out assigned ALT, down arrow.

For the poster that said could only zoom to left side of his screen, well it zooms into where ever the mouse pointer is.

And I am still using a bit older version of mint, which I love, and don't feel any need to "upgrade". I'm glad I still have my CD too as it is no longer available for download.

Re: Zoom in and out? [SOLVED]

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 7:58 am
by hay207
ok , but can i zoom in and out, using mouse only, for example hold right click and move mouse wheel up and down.

Edit: i found a tool named xdotool: where you can zoom in and out from a command, type
xdotool key shortcut

where shortcut is the keystroke to change.