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accessibility zoom unusable on multi-monitor setup

The accessibility zoom feature (ctrl-scoll when enabled) that always worked so well and fluidily in previous versions of OSX is now broken in Yosemite.


It works fine on my macbook pro retina's main display when there are no monitor connected, but on my usual dual external monitor setup the frame rate is so slow it makes is useless.


Does anyone have the same issue?

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 8:22 AM

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Oct 19, 2014 7:55 AM in response to hitchhikingmike

I just found a great workaround for the zoom and it works better than before.

The zoom defaults to fullscreen zoom and when you have multiple monitors it zooms all of them. Normally I don't need to zoom all just the one monitor that I'm working on.

Go to "system preferences " ,"accessibility ", set zoom style to "picture in picture" and then click "more options" and then click "adjust size and location" then you can set the zoom window to the size of a monitor. then when you zoom only the monitor you are on gets zoomed and is fast.


Works for me. Hopefully helps others as well.

accessibility zoom unusable on multi-monitor setup

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