Ubuntu – 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?

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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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Ubuntu – How to re-activate (wake?) the monitors from the command line

xset dpms force on

If you have a more complicated system where you need to wake more than one display, you could iterate through them with something like this:

for display in `ps aux | grep -oE "/usr/bin/X\s[^ ]+" | cut -d " " -f 2`; do
    xset -display $display dpms force on;
done

Ubuntu – How to zoom in one window in Unity

There's another plug-in if you open the compiz configuration manager (ccsm) called "Enhanced zoom Desktop". There you can define the key binding for the zoom, and keys to zoom only an area or a window.

In case you don't have that option, or even the ccsm, you will have to install the packages that includes the extra plug ins. I do it trough synaptic in every new Ubuntu installation. Just search "compiz" and install all the available packages (except the KDE related ones).

Wish it helps, good luck!

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