Windows scaling

[Jon TURNEY]

Gionatan Danti wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a question regarding CygWin/X.
> 
> I would like to know if there is a method to scale a window, similar to
> what is possible with UltraVNC and its scaling option.
> 
> To be more clear, I will explain my setup. I have a Linux server where
> run a fixed-resolution application: it's window can't be resized and/or
> maximized. 
> When I connect to this Linux server via CygWin and SSH X forwarding, I
> can maximize the window (because CygWin start in multiwindow mode and
> use it's own window manager), but the majority of the maximized window
> is empty (it's white).

This sounds like a bug.  Ideally, the Cygwin/X multiwindow mode window manager 
should also take note of the hint that this window isn't resizable/maximizable 
and not allow it to be maximized.

> I would like to know if there is a method to scale the image so that it
> can fit completely the maximized window (eg: by mean of linear /
> bilinear filtering).

This feature doesn't exist.

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