[Kde-accessibility] Mouse Scaling in KWin's Zoom Effecdt

[Jeremy Whiting]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Robert Cole <rkcole72984 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> I am testing out openSUSE 12.1 in a virtual machine using VirtualBox today.
> I decided to test out the Zoom effect of KWin to see how it worked, as it is
> quite jumpy on my primary Linux Mint 11 machine. I was amazed at how smooth
> the screen panned around while it was zoomed, and this being in a virtual
> machine! My main reason for writing this message, however, is that I found
> that the mouse pointer does not scale (at least in the virtual machine) when
> zoomed in.

Interesting.  I haven't played with the kwin zoom effect til today.
It's quite nice indeed.  I tried on my real machine, and the cursor
did scale, but I noticed it changed style.  When using no zoom the
cursor is oxygen style white with a bit of shadow, but as soon as I
zoom in one level, it changes to the old style white with black sharp
outline.  It stays with the old style for all zoom levels except 100%.

Jeremy

>
> According to the settings for the Zoom feature, scaling is enabled.  To
> Access the settings, do the following:
>
> 1. Open the KMenu.
> 2. Open the System Settings window (the option to open mine was found under
> the Favorites section).
> 3. In the Workspace Appearance and Behavior section of the System Settings
> window, click the Desktop Effects icon.
> 4. In the Desktop Effects dialog, click on the All Effects tab.
> 5. Under the Accessibility category on the list of effects, click the wrench
> icon to the right of the Zoom listing to access the settings for the Zoom
> feature.
>
>
> You should be able to press Meta+Plus (as in the plus symbol on the top
> (number) row on a standard QWERTY keyboard; the number pad Plus key did not
> work for me) to zoom in. Meta+Minus will zoom out. alternatively, Meta+0
> will restore the desktop to the original size.
>
> Mine was set by default to Scale.
>
> On my primary Linux Mint 11 machine (on which I installed the kde-standard
> package as it had GNOME by default), the mouse pointer does scale when
> zoomed, but panning is VERY jumpy.
>
> Could the scaling be a virtual machine issue?
>
> Thanks for any help. I am very grateful for all of the work being put into
> the KDE project. I am loving it!!
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