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How do I zoom in one window in Unity

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I'm trying to zoom in (or scale up) one window on the Macbook Pro with HiDPI/retina screen in Unity on 12.04. This is useful for some applications that doesn't allow the font size etc. to be changed. It would also be useful to e.g. scale up Virtualbox on hi-res screens.

The compiz zoom plugin zooms the entire desktop, so that's not what I need. The shelf plugin does what I want, but only scales windows down.

Thanks for any help!

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answered 2 Years ago dicatandyca · Accepted Answer

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!