Screen Magnifier

Willie Walker William.Walker at Sun.COM
Thu Dec 7 16:49:28 GMT 2006


There are some notes here on enabling full screen magnification with the
existing gnome-mag stuff.  I've never tried it, so I'm not sure if it
works or not:

   http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.10/apas03.html

Will

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 17:19 +0100, Øyvind Lode wrote:
> Instead of magnifying just a portion of the screen it magnifies the 
> whole screen/desktop in real-time.
> 
> I'm now using Supernova on Windows, I have fullscreen magnification on 
> and the magnification Level is 14x which is quite high.
> If I move the mouse to the upper left of the screen I can only see the 
> title bar "Compose:" and beneath that I see the File, Edit, View and 
> just below that I see the Send and Contact buttons in Thundeerbird.
> To see the rest I have to move the mouse around.
> You may say what I see on my screen is about 14 times bigger than what 
> you see because you probably dont need magnification to read text on 
> your computer.
> 
> -Øyvind
> 
> 
> Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> > On 12/6/06, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes <cerdiogenes at yahoo.com.br> 
> > wrote:
> >> The only big think that I think that is missing in linux magnification
> >> is full screen magnification.
> > 
> > What do you mean by full screen magnification?
> > 
> 
> 




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