Advice for user with impaired vision

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 30 Sep 2017 23:22:43 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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

Hmmm... I wonder if all of the the other "silly" goodies are still "alive":
there were at least two "flying saucer" programs (a UFO randomly wanders across
your screen from time to time), there was xroach (roaches on your root window,
that hide under active windows and can be squished with a mouse click) and
xantfarm (a live ant farm on your root window).  There were some others like 
that at one point.

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> 
> 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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