Advice for user with impaired vision

[Peter Silva]

found the utility, it is called 'oneko' it is in the repos, and works.


On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 11:01 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> At Sat, 30 Sep 2017 20:14:01 -0600 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 09/30/2017 01:55 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>> > I am looking for suggestions to help a friend who has poor vision to
>> > use his computer.  Obviously I can make the text and icons larger but
>> > I wonder whether anyone can offer any other advice or any tools that
>> > might help further. His vision is not so poor that he needs a text to
>> > speech screen reader.
>> >
>> > Colin
>>
>> One thing that helped me a lot waiting for cataract surgery was
>> turning on a feature that enabled "mouse trails" -- a series of
>> mouse pointer images left behind the mouse as it moves and that
>> fade out quickly.  Without that I could never see where the mouse
>> pointer was.
>>
>> Unfortunately, that was on Windows I think.  I don't see anything
>> in my Xfce4 accessibility settings that looks like it.  But maybe
>> other desktop suites offer it or it is available as an add-on.
>
> There used to be a X11 "utility" that featured a "cat" that chased after the
> mouse pointer.  It might exist somewhere as old X11 utility somewhere.  It is
> likely to still be buildable.
>
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