Re: gnopernicus-magnifier. Full screen magnifier with dummy driver

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Ermengol,

This is a problem with our current magnification architecture.  We are 
looking forward to magnifiers that are based on several X extensions - 
most especially the COMPOSITE extension - which will allow us to avoid 
this bit of hackery.  Unfortunately we aren't quite ready with those yet.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

> Hello,
> I'm trying to use the gnopernicus-magnifier as a full screen magnifier.
> I followed the instructions at:
> http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.10/apas03.html
>
> I did it with the dummy driver, but this approach have a problem and
> is that you have two displays (one on the left to the other)
> One display is the zoomed version of the other. But the mouse can move
> freely from on display to another, so if you are working with the
> zoomed display and you move the mouse to the left (or right, it
> depends on X config) then you "move" to the non-zoomed display. And
> this is a little bit annoying :)
>
> Does any body knows about a workaround for this? or any other approach
> to use full screen magnification on linux?
>
> Thanks a lot