RE: 2.4 Proposed Modules - gnome-mag

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 16:54, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > From: Cumming Murray (COMNEON Linz) 
> >   gnome-mag - Desktop magnification tool.
> >   http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-mag/README
> >   http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-mag/
> 
> I was really looking forward to trying out gnome-mag. It sounded like a lot
> of fun.
> 
> I have built it OK. But someone needs to tell us what we need to do to try
> it out. How do we run it and what are we looking for? With just 1 week left
> until GEP 11 ends this is urgent.

The binary name for this, if you want to run it in standalone mode, is
"magnifier".

You can run "magnifier --usage" or "magnifier --help" to get a bit more
info.

I have updated the README to mention the "magnifier" CLI.

Note that gnome-mag is *not* primarily intended for use this way, it's a
bonobo service that's mostly intended for use by other clients such as
gnopernicus (as Jeff suggests).

Running the magnifier in fullscreen mode requires that you have two
framebuffers (some Matrox video cards support this, otherwise you might
need two video cards).  Only one of the heads/framebuffers need be
connected to a physical monitor of course.

For starters, try

magnifier -vm

(vertical split-screen, follows the mouse).

- Bill

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