Re: [g-a-devel] gnome-mag, full screen magnication and composite

[George Kraft <gk4 austin ibm com>]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:45 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
> I don't see why we have to emulate all those window-manager-like features 
> just to use Composite.  When I looked at this (well over a year ago), 
> it seemed to me that we only needed to add magnification logic 
> to a simple compositing manager like the existing one that
> as available with the XOrg composite client code.  At the time it 
> didn't' look like a lot of code.

Carlos,

Here is an opportunity to enhance magnification to the existing
composite client code.  :-)

http://lwn.net/Articles/181272/

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libcm/src/magnifier.c?rev=1.5&view=log

http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2006-April/msg00971.html

$ USE_MAGNIFIER=1 metacity --replace &

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George (gk4)