Bug#355206: (no subject)
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 17:01 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> May I ask whether you've looked into using a tool designed for this
> purpose, such as gnome-mag or kmag?
Thanks for the pointers. I have looked at those projects (though kmag
was some time ago so things could have changed by now). I found two
main problems with them, for my use:
1. They don't do fullscreen magnification (I've heard this may be
possible to set up now but the second reason I don't use them negates
that) and they also seem to be overkill for the job.
2. All I want is the screen to look bigger and X viewports do this with
almost no overhead, whereas the other solutions appear to eat up my CPU
doing anti-aliasing and other fancy stuff that I can't see the benefit
of (literally, LOL).
It just seems, to me, that X viewports are done at the right layer, as
they seem a lot more efficient. It would be nice if:
* There could be some communication between X and the window manager so
that focus could be moved to windows that have just popped up (though I
probably would find this annoying, it's what vision-impaired people
migrating from 'doze would expect to have).
* The mouse didn't have to move to the very edge of the screen to pan
cross the desktop. This feature, on 'doze screen magnifiers, saves a
lot of arm work.
I imagine the above could be implemented by a relatively simple X
extension, but I have not yet had the time to look into it further.
> Considering all of the above, and assuming there's only one monitor
> connected to the graphics card, I suspect this is a duplicate of
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353367 (Radeon 9100 is
> mostly identical to 8500). If so, either of
>
> Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,NONE"
> Option "MergedFB" "off"
>
> should work around the problem.
And work it did -- thank you very much!
best regards,
--
Matthew T. Atkinson <matthew@agrip.org.uk>
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