working with magnification

[Milton]

I tried virtual Magnifyer Glass in GNOME Metacity. So my friend has to 
judge by himself if it is good enough. Last year I tried Compiz but I 
could not put the settings right.
Milton

Op 16-07-15 om 09:23 schreef blind Pete:
> Milton wrote:
>
>> A question for helping out a friend: can you recommand a system to work
>> with magnification? Thanks in advance.
>> Milton
>
> I am not sure how well compiz is supported, or if it is being
> superseded, but I love the e-zoom feature.  With Mythbuntu LTS
> (and a bit of configuration) holding down the Tux/Windows/Super
> key and scrolling the mouse wheel puts the screen into a zoom
> and pan mode.
>
> Or, buy a bigger screen, and reconfigure everything to use
> large fonts, large icons, large pointers, etc.  Sometimes
> you can cheat and tell the computer that the screen is a
> different size from what it really is - but things tend to
> get messy when you do that.
>