Beryl and Enlarged Mouse Pointer

[Kristian Lyngstøl]

On 5/24/07, Robert Cole <rkcole72984 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as my use, I would use it as a screen magnifier.  I have very
> limited vision (20/2000 in my right eye, and no vision in my left with
> no possible correction for either eye).  I have enough sight, though, to
> work on the computer using a screen magnifier.  Right now I use
> gnome-mag, and ti works just fine, but Beryl/Compiz seem to work much
> more smoothly and take up less resources on my system.  Needless to say
> I am grateful for both, as I am now able to use Ubuntu as my primary OS
> rather than Windows. :)  With Beryl/Compiz, however, I cannot find the
> cursor on-screen as it doe snot enlarge when I use the zoom feature.  I
> am unsure of how to set it so that the cursor does enlarge on zoom, though.

There should be an option in beryl-settings somewhere, I don't have a
working copy at the moment, so I can't really give any more details at
the moment.

I am about to implement this in the zoom plugin I'm writing/improving
(for summer of code), and I have a few options. I figure I'll do both,
but is it really any help that the cursor is zoomed along with the
"normal" zoom, or does it make more sense to separate this? In beryl,
the pointer is enlarged as you zoom in (when enabled).

Ie: A binding to enlarge just the pointer without actually zooming.
This could be done both by a static factor in the configuration, and
on-the-fly gradually enlarging the cursor. That way, you could enlarge
the cursor even when zoomed out. Does this make sense to you?

Oh, some of this might not be perfect after my summer-work is done;
David Reveman intends to have Compiz draw the cursor by it self, and
when/if it does this, some of this will be slightly redundant, but
until then...

> If I can offer any input, as I've mentioned before, please let me know
> as I use the magnifier function both in Ubuntu and Windows very
> heavily.  Unfortunately, however, my programming experience is very lacking.

If you have any ideas related to zoom that could help make your life
easier, I am very interested in them.

> nonce again, thanks for your response.

And the same to you :)

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Regards,
Kristian