Single window scaling

[chrissy]

Hi,
Firstly, apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this (I have searched but didn't find anything). Is there a way of scaling a single window permantly, in a similar way that the scale plugin works? I.e. there is an app that for example requires 1024x768 minimum screen size, then try running that on a small screen (UMPC 800x480). Is this something that is possible, is there actually an existing plugin to achieve this?

Many thanks.....

[adamk]

Doing this, while keeping the window interactive, requires input redirection in the X server. This is being worked on, though I don't know that there's a hard ETA on this yet. Once that's complete, I'm sure you'll be seeing all sorts of new plugins that allow you to interact with a transformed window in some manner.

Adam

[delfick]

though there is a plugin that lets you scale individual windows

the freescale plugin as announced here (http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/compiz-fusion-community-news-for-decemeber-5-2007-keep-those-plugins-coming/)

though untill we have input redirection, you can't interact with the scaled windows, and I believe you need the latest version of compiz to be able to run it (and I don't recommend trying to install it, as there is the x11-xcb dependency that isn't easy to overcome)