The most thing that i miss once i log into windows is the compiz zoom using the winkey and the mouse wheel feature on linux , i tried to search for alternative but with no luck each time till i read an article recently on lifehacker which shows that the new built in magnifier in windows 7 has a mode to magnify the whole screen rather than certain part (aka docked mode) , that was great news except the shortcut keys are Winkey +/- and can't be changed !!.
After some searching i found a program called autohotkey that could serve me in solving this issue , any way if you aren't into technical details you can grab the compiled version and start using it immediately.
You may need to alter the default zoom value instead of 100% to a more usable amount , iam fine with 25%
Hope you find it useful.
After some searching i found a program called autohotkey that could serve me in solving this issue , any way if you aren't into technical details you can grab the compiled version and start using it immediately.
Otherwise , here is the complete source code of the script
; Created By :
; Ahmed Kotb on 27/5/2011
; licensed under :
; Creative commons Attribution 3.0
; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
; version :
; 1.0
; A small script that enables you to zoom in/out using the winkey
; and mouse wheel instead of winkey +/- on windows7 magnifier program
#NoEnv
SendMode Input
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
;zoom in
#WheelUp::send #{sc4E}
;zoom out
#WheelDown::send #{sc4A}
; Ahmed Kotb on 27/5/2011
; licensed under :
; Creative commons Attribution 3.0
; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
; version :
; 1.0
; A small script that enables you to zoom in/out using the winkey
; and mouse wheel instead of winkey +/- on windows7 magnifier program
#NoEnv
SendMode Input
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
;zoom in
#WheelUp::send #{sc4E}
;zoom out
#WheelDown::send #{sc4A}
You may need to alter the default zoom value instead of 100% to a more usable amount , iam fine with 25%
Hope you find it useful.
3 comments:
brilliant - thanks for posting this tip. Even with this Win 7 zoom is still nowhere near as smooth and usable as compiz zoom which can be quite organic and fluid to use. Until I get around to dual booting ubuntu on this laptop this will keep me happy.
glad that you liked it :)
Great idea!
And I use the magnifier quite a bit (visually impaired sysadmin)
One thing I've noticed though. If you disabled Windows 7's hotkeys via registry (nowinkeys) and use the magnifier via windows key and plus/minus, when one zooms in (+) it will add +'s into notepad/IM clients/any app that has text input.
If I don't set the nowinkeys option in the registry, then it's fine.
The reason I disable the stock Windows hotkeys is so I can claim win+1,2,3,4,5 etc; (quiclaunch) so I can bind them to my virtual desktop manager.
Nowinkeys can be set via:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoWinKeys"=dword:00000002
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