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

[Jeremy Whiting]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:
> 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

Hmm, after going into the workspace appearance settings and setting
the cursor theme to any, it scales that cursor theme just fine...

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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