Window manager that can scale individual window or virtual desktop?

Xfig doesn't work well on high DPI screens, especially for users whose vision is not that great. The problem is that there is no configuration option to scale elements such as lines.
I see two ways to solve the problem:
Scale the Xfig window.
Scale the virtual desktop on which Xfig is running. Other applications would be running on virtual desktops that are not scaled.
Following a suggestion in the awesome mailing list, I looked into Wayland plus a compositing window manager. However, XWayland, the X compatibility layer, has issues with Xfig. So I guess that for now I’m stuck with X.org, and a window manager compatible with the X composite extension.

Possible solutions:
Pervert: Set up a virtual machine just for Xfig, then use xrandr to scale the desktop inside of the virtual machine.
Saner: Run Xfig in a VNC server (or NX), then connect with a client that supports scaling, e.g. gtk-vnc.
Could be nice: Run Xfig within Xephyr, an X server that runs in a window within X. However, scaling with xrandr doesn't work.
Untested: Use the Compiz Ezoom plugin to scale part of the screen. One would somehow need to prevent windows from being positioned outside of the zoomed area, and also restrict mouse movement.
Last edited by feklee (2015-04-06 11:27:07)

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