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Oli
Asked: 2010-12-05 12:26:44 +0800 CST

Control compiz zoom from the command line

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I'm downstairs on my phone trying to VNC into my desktop upstairs but earlier today, I zoomed in with compiz on one of my screens so it makes using that screen over VNC almost impossible.

Now I could go upstairs... But I'm lazy!

Does anybody know a way to turn off zoom via the command line?

compiz command-line zooming

2 Answers

  1. You can control Compiz via DBus, and there is even a helper python script to make it easier.

    Example usage of the compiz-send.py script:

    hello@world:~$ python compiz-send.py ezoom zoom_out_key

    This will zoom out if you are using the Enhanced Zoom Desktop plugin.

    More Examples.

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  2. Best Answer

    What a brilliant question! :-)

    This is what you want:

    xdotool keydown Super && for i in $(seq 0 30); do xdotool click 5; done && xdotool keyup Super

    you probalby need to sudo apt-get install xdotool.

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