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Mac desktop zoom

Started by chowe6685 Jan 19, 2007 at 10:10 PM 5 replies 2.7k views

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Jan 19, 2007 at 10:10 PM

Edit: Never mind solved. Sorry for the clutter I was wondering if someone could give me a hand with a problem I'm having with a Mac running OS X 10.4.8. Somehow it's managed to become zoomed in. It's as though the desktop is at a constant resolution of 1400x1050ish while the monitor is just a sliding window to view it through. Moving the cursor to the edges of the screen scrolls the desktop. Changing the display resolution changes the resolution the monitor displays but the underlying desktop stays the same size - so it's effectively just a smaller sliding window to deal with. I'm not really a Mac person so I was wondering if anyone had encountered this problem before and could give me a hand in disabling this "feature" It's like tiny footprint mode but more annoying Thanks

etothex

Jan 19, 2007 at 11:22 PM

Apple-alt-plus/minus zooms in and out. It's actually quite useful sometimes, but unless you're visually disabled somehow and need everything bigger all the time, usually most people keep it turned off.

Apple-alt-8 turns it on and off, to prevent it from accidentally coming on.

Edit: oh, I see. solved. Then this post is just for people searching.

Ravuya

Jan 20, 2007 at 12:22 AM

Ctrl + ScrollWheel will change the zoom as well. I just noticed this the other day.

etothex

Jan 20, 2007 at 1:10 AM

Wow! It does, it even works with the trackpad two-finger scrolling on the macbook/mb pro.

Ravuya

Jan 20, 2007 at 1:22 AM

So far I've been using it to look up the nostrils of people on DVDs.

Umbongo

Jan 20, 2007 at 5:00 AM

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Original post by Ravuya
So far I've been using it to look up the nostrils of people on DVDs.

I believe Steve Jobs demanded it was included for this very reason.

Lode

Jan 20, 2007 at 5:47 AM

Quote:
Original post by Ravuya
Ctrl + ScrollWheel will change the zoom as well. I just noticed this the other day.

That combination zooms in the internet for me. In Opera. In KDE.

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