Can zoom in with "cmd -", but can not zoom back out

[Jakob-Unfried]

Description

Hitting "cmd -" (to be explicit: the command key and the minus key at the same time) zooms out on the interface. After doing this, I can not find a way to zoom back in and everything is now too small to read.

Steps to reproduce

• Open Element Desktop App on Mac OS
• Hit "cmd -" (multiple times)
• The view zooms out, everything (text, icons) becomes smaller
• "cmd +" does not revert this, nor does anything else i come up with, short of reinstalling the app

Logs being sent: yes (I hope I did it right, the small interface makes this somewhat hard)

Version information

• Platform: desktop
• OS: macOS Catalina 10.15.7
• Version: 1.7.26

[t3chguy]

Cmd - and Cmd = (+ key next to - but without shift) works fine here also Cmd 0 for resetting zoom

[Jakob-Unfried]

@t3chguy Cmd = works - thanks. However i would not have figured this out - i am using a german keyboard and = has nothing to do with + on it. In particular, it does not appear in the shortcuts list from the help and about tab.

So I guess it works as intended, but I would recommend changing the behavior to be the + key on all keyboard layouts, or at least list the shortcuts in help and about.

Feel free to close

[t3chguy]

Related https://github.com/vector-im/element-desktop/issues/794 https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/9533

Not sure why we specify the accelerator instead of relying on the default https://github.com/vector-im/element-desktop/blob/466a871094fdc59f133b73f4e25cd685ab3745e8/src/vectormenu.js#L40

[t3chguy]

The shortcuts are listed in the Window menu:

[Jakob-Unfried]

confirmed - my bad thanks for the quick reactions

[Jakob-Unfried]

I noticed that after all of this zooming in and back out, the letters in the read-icons on the very right side are now off-center.

This really doesnt bother me much but I thought you might want to know.

[ewen-goisot]

"Ctrl =" does not work for me. I use a non-standard keyboard layout named ETUSINA that you can find here : https://configure.zsa.io/ergodox-ez/layouts/MaDpX/latest/2 and the behavior of shortcuts is quite strange :

• "Ctrl -" works with the '-' of my own layout (bottom left, the place for 'w' in AZERTY or 'z' in QWERTY)
• "Ctrl =" does nothing (is it because I access '=' with AltGr ?)
• Same for "Ctrl 0" (it could be for the same reason, but again, I'm not sure).

After several tries, I found that "Ctrl #" can reset the zoom (because '#' on my keyboard where '=' is on QWERTY). For example, in my current layout, the key with '=' on QWERTY has 'z' on ETUSINA, so the "zoom +" function is currently impossible to do for me (I can only do "zoom reset" to the default value).

Of course, my keyboard layout is unusual (but necessary for me), but most other softwares allow me to zoom/unzoom with Ctrl+ and Ctrl-. (I don't have to use the Shift key to do the '+')

I mean shortcuts have a quite unpredictable behavior on non-standard keyboard layout, sometimes it takes the QWERTY key, and sometimes it takes the key for the other (ETUSINA) layout.

Is there a way to configure the keyboard shortcuts (currently or planned for later) ?

• Platform : desktop
• OS : Ubuntu 20.04LTS
• window manager : i3wm (it uses xorg)
• Element version : 1.9.9 (downloaded recently, with apt-get)

[sam0x17]

I am unable to zoom back in after zooming out, Ubuntu Budgie 22.04

[sam0x17]

omg I figured it out. Zoom out is just CTRL+- but for zoom in it's SHIFT+CTRL+=

[dsheeler]

@sam0x17 I swear I tried that and it didn't work until you suggested it. THANK YOU