Comment 18 for bug 881046

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In , Paul Alesius (paul-unnservice) wrote :

(Reply to comment #5)
> Yeah, I later submitted another patch which also fixes this issue in a
> different way:
>
> http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/6488/
>
> There's no action on either of them though.
>
> RandR panning is a really niche and unloved feature which I can understand as
> it makes the X server more complex than it could be. The panning functionality
> really belongs in a client application like a compositor.

I tried the patch and it works with panning, but not for scaling.
Ex. xrandr --output LVDS1 --scale 1.5x1.5

With scaling, the mouse is still confined to the native resolution's bounds.