Questions tagged [zooming]
About zooming in or out, including magnification tools.
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Is there a way to zoom out past the screen on Ubuntu?
I've tried using custom resolutions and the sort, but my good ol' fashioned Emerson TV says nuh uh by providing me "The resolution is not supported, please use the user manual for supported ...
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ALT + Mousescroll for Zoom on Desktop like XFCE on Ubuntu
On XFCE there is the in-house function for zoom the whole screen by using ALT and Mousescroll. I love this function but changed to Ubuntu 22.04. Is there a package or an extension in extension-manager ...
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screen zoomed into top left when qemu vm with gpu is open
When running a vm with a gpu added as virtual hardware (quadro 4000) in qemu, the screen zooms into the top left corner. This persists even after closing the vm. Rebooting the computer does not fix ...
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Pinch zoom to arbitrary level like in Windows
In Windows, I can pinch on the touchpad to zoom to arbitrary levels within a browser window (Chrome, Edge, Firefox), and it doesn't invoke the browser's page zoom. This is something I use heavily and ...
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Navigation in Inkscape with touch screen 22.04
I recently got a PC with touch screen (ThinkPad-X1-Yoga-3rd). I have been using Inkscape for a long time by now but never with a "nice touch screen" as I have now. The experience with the ...
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How to get Windows-like pinch zoom or -scaling on Ubuntu?
I just switched from Windows to Ubuntu. I used the pinch to zoom/scaling feature a lot while browsing on Windows but looks like this feature isn't available by default on Ubuntu. How do I enable this ...
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How to set Notepad++ GUI text to a bigger font?
I installed Notepad++ on my Ubuntu 22.04 via terminal
sudo snap install notepad-plus-plus
However, the text of the UI buttons, tabs, dropdown menues (not the opened file text), is too small compared ...
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Control scroll to zoom in and out not working for some applications, ubuntu 20.04
While using ubuntu 20.04, control key + scroll(mouse middle button) doesn't work for some applications. It just scrolls down the pdf file, for example. How can I explicitly set ctrl + scroll to zoom ...
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Zoom with Control+Mouse-wheel in Ubuntu 22.04 (Gnome)
In most applications, Control+Mouse-wheel allows one to zoom in or out (e.g. Firefox, LibreOffice, Evince, etc.). After upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04, Gnome seems to catch the event and ...
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How to zoom in and out of text in Pluma?
I am using newest version of Ubuntu mate (22.04 - Jammy jelly-fish), where the text editor is 'Pluma'.
Earlier, when I was in mint, I used to press 'Ctrl + scroll' for zooming in and out for changing ...
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How to zoom in and out text in web browser in ubuntu 20.04 instead of whole layout?
i tried web browsers(firefox, google chrome) in windows, when i pinch with two finger on touchpad to zoom in and out it zooms the text or content not the layout of webpage.
but, in ubuntu 20.04 i know ...
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Spotify Zoomed Out WIndow
I'm using ubuntu 21.10 and I downloaded the SPotify from the software store. The window is really zoomed out, making it hard to read. Is there a way to adjust this or to zoom in more to make it easier ...
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How to prevent mouse pointer following keyboard cursor action while zoom in ubuntu
Now i am using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS desktop
I used to use in previous version of Ubuntu Compiz app as an enhancer and in Ubuntu 18 they decided to get rid of Gnome and move forward to Unity. So, I can't ...
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zoom usage and what is happening?
I normally use zoom for teleworking on my windows machine.
Today I tried to use zoom (from the browser only since I don't have it installed) from my linux machine
There appear the homepage where it ...
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How do I zoom 200% in feh without having to use fullscreen?
This works:
feh --zoom 200 --full-screen picturius.png
I need the same without full-screen:
feh --zoom 200 picturius.png # this does not work
Have you an idea where I am wrong?
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How to smoothly desktop Zoom-in/out with Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS on iMac late 2014?
I know there are currently a bunch of requests on this subject, e.g. How to zoom in & zoom out - I have an iMac late 2014 with recognized GPU and decided last week (march 2021) to install and use ...
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How can I signal boost a particularly long standing accessibility bug?
Ever since Ubuntu 19.10, when I turn on the Zoom feature from the accessibility menu, my mouse leaves little square trails running across the screen. 12 others have repro'd this issue, but I suspect ...
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Kubuntu screen magnifier doesn't follow the cursor
I'm a sight impaired and use Kubuntu. I'm really happy with it but have a little problem. When I write a document or an e-mail, I have to use the screen magnifier, and it doesn't follow the cursor ...
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Using SOMEKEY+mousewheel for zoom in and out on vanilla UBUNTU 20.04 desktop?
How to enable "mousewheel zooming" / "magnifying" on plain vanilla UBUNTU 20.04 Desktop (default desktop enviroment/system)??
I now searched the webs for >1h and yet still not ...
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Zoom in-out problems in Ubuntu 20.04
I have Ubuntu 20.04 installed and having problems with zooming or out function. When I activate zoom it generally zooms in the whole screen but I only want a zoomed in image of a small area of a ...
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Zooming does not work in my text editors
Ctrl + + and Ctrl + - are not working in my text editors, e.g. vim, gedit and nano on Ubuntu 20.04.0. It works perfectly in browsers such as Chrome, Mozilla, etc.
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Desktop dimensions too zoomed out Ubuntu 20.04
So I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, and my main issue is that although the screen is correctly captured (I am using VirtualBox!), the Desktop is too zoomed out i.e. icons appear too small, ...
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How to zoom in on screen using the touchpad?
I just started using Ubuntu. I really liked how I could just zoom in on any point on the screen using the touchpad in macOS. It worked in certain places like chrome or safari. I want to know if there ...
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Screen zoom (accessibility settings) not working, how to fix it?
I recently noticed(Ubuntu 20.4.1 LTS) that my screen zoom function is not working smoothly as it used to under Universal Access Settings. It does turns ON the screen zoom functionality but, it's very &...
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How can I get apps in Plasma desktop to look right on a very large screen? There's no desktop scaling option
I just started using the KDE launcher instead of the Unity launcher in Ubuntu 16.04. It looks very nice, but, since I have a very large screen (4k, indeed), the UI elements look very small. In Unity ...
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How to run Compiz on Ubuntu Bionic Beaver?
I'm not pretty sure what is the problem. But I already installed the Compiz Manager Settings (I want to be able to do zoom for creating tutorials) on my Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) but no matter if I ...
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Zoom with scroll wheel?
I'm baffled I've not found an answer to this on Google.
I want to be able to zoom in / magnify parts of screens when recording tutorial videos. On my Mac I just turned on the zoom accessibility ...
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qBittorrent stuck zoomed out on monitor 2 only. Clearing ~/.config/qBittorrent and uninstall-reinstall doesn't help
I managed to zoom out with some weird gesture of the mouse and keyboard by accident. No matter what I do I can't figure out how to zoom back in with qBittorrent. It's unreadable as is.
Edit: It's ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 - how to configure zoom
Im currently using Ubuntu 16.04 with compizconfig-settings-manager for zoom and invert colors.
I now installed Ubuntu 18.04 on another drive, i wanted to try it out and seems like the zoom works quiet ...
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Is there a magnifier for Ubuntu 18.04?
I've just upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. I am half blind and used to love the compiz config tool and the way it could be configured to the keyboard.
Does 18.04 have anything that comes close to ...
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Can you do a multi step zoom on Gnome?
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 with Gnome. I've come over from MacOs and one thing I'm really really missing is it's pinch to zoom feature, expecially in browsers.
I know I can do a Ctrl +/- but that actually ...
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The zoom tool does not work in Pinta
The zoom tool does not work in Pinta. Holding Ctrl and scrolling does nothing. The buttons "Zoom in" and "Zoom out" have no effect. Nothing happens when I type in a zoom percentage.
Other than that ...
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How to enable 2 finger touchpad pinch to zoom gesture (not ctrl+/-) Ubuntu 19.10?
It seems in 19.10 the touchscreen 2 finger zoom is finally working correctly out of the box. So why is same behavior not on the touchpad? Is there any driver, software, Ubuntu flavor, Linux ...
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Can't zoom with Thinkpad T480s touchpad in 18.04
Zooming with a pinch gesture on the touchpad of my Lenovo Thinkpad T480s does not work. Does Ubuntu 18.04 LTS support it?
I tried fusuma but it didn't help.
How may I troubleshoot this?
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How to mousewheel zoom the whole desktop in ubuntu budgie
I can't remember what version of ubuntu i used 3 or 4 years ago,
but it had a feature where i could zoom in and zoom out the whole desktop with the mousewheele, like MAC does(i don't know if they can ...
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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%? ...
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How to automatically increase Chrome UI size?
On my 15.6" HD laptop screen with resolution 1920 x 1080, Google Chrome looks too small by default. Not the page content but the other things like URL bar, the menu, window buttons, etc. and the font ...
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My Ubuntu screen is in full zoom and it is all white screen
I went to settings in my laptop which is running on Ubuntu and went to universal access. Then I clicked in zoom option and my laptop screen went full white.
What can I do now to fix this?
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Recover files without a screen?
My screen is zoomed to max rendering it useless to navigate. I need the files on the drive and I wanted to re-install Ubuntu 18.04 to fix the zoom problem since nothing else has worked to correct the ...
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18.04 Screen zoomed- cannot navigate
I upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 but did not see any change to the desktop layout. I installed Gnome and the screen went to max zoom. I can no longer navigate or open a terminal or anything. I tried ...
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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
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Any program
That allows me to smoothly zoom a Webpage with a pinching gesture on my ...
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Change resolution - zoom resolution [duplicate]
I use a big screen 4K 43", of course the resolution 4K makes everything too small on screen.
On windows, I have a option to zoom all the desktop GUI, normally I use 150%.
Is there a way to do the ...
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Ubuntu file manager with more zoom
I want to go over a folder with images and copy some of them to a different folder. I am working on a laptop screen and I want to see the image thumbnails zoomed bigger.
I tried the file managers I ...
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Disable zoom on GDM, Ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
Ubuntu seems to detect that my laptop has a high resolution screen and, by default, sets everything to a 200% zoom. I prefer to set this back to no zoom, but with larger font sizes. This was no ...
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Gnome Shell Magnifier zoom feature misbehaving
I am trying to use Ubuntu zoom feature (18.04 LTS), but it's not behaving well.
When applied to a window, zoom should also increase the size of the window.
It does not, making the zoom feature pretty ...
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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 ...
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zoomed in login window
My niece was hitting the keyboard while the computer was at the login window, a few seconds later the login page was zoomed in like crazy as you can see.
I tried hitting ctrl and scrolling up and ...
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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 ...
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Side by side image comparison in Linux
Is there any way to view and compare images side by side with the ability to zoom and pan on one image and get the same view on another image (synced views)?
In Windows this can be done using ...
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Title bars and menus have become too small, but everything else too big
I just restarted my computer (I installed Git LFS, if that's related at all) and now my title bars, menus, desktop icons, etc. are too small and the contents of most of my windows are too large.
I've ...
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