Thanks for all the help! Kara, the plastic lens is a clever idea, I'll see if we can find something like that here in Brazil :)
Andrea, I executed the sequence of commands you gave and it worked! The lens moves with the mouse and disappears after we click the mouse button. I'm relieved to see a software solution that works :) Thanks again and regards! Vanessa. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Andrea Mangiatordi < [email protected]> wrote: > Il 28/10/10 20.25, Vanessa Maike ha scritto: > > Some of the children of this school have subnormal vision and I'm > > looking for a screen magnifier for the OLPC laptop, but I haven't been > > able to find it. > > > > I was wondering if anyone could help me, by telling me if exists a > > screen magnifier software for the XO-1 and where I can find it. > > H Vanessa, > > I spent some times in Uruguay working on accessibility topics and I > proposed the usage of this software: > > http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/ > > Later, Esteban Arias from Plan Ceibal (who I am CCing in this mail) > modified the source code to obtain better results on the XO-1. > > Plan Ceibal deployed the magnifying software on all the laptops in the > country. > > It has been quite a long time since I instaled it for the first time, > but if you want to give it a try here are the terminal commands you need > to execute on an XO-1 to get it installed: > > wget > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/magnifier/magnifier%20for%20Linux/3.3.2/magnifier-3.3.2-1.i586.rpm?use_mirror=switch > sudo rpm -i magnifier-3.3.2-1.i586.rpm > sudo yum install xbindkeys > touch .xbindkeysrc > echo "# Virtual Magnifying Glass" >> .xbindkeysrc > echo \"vmg\" >> .xbindkeysrc > echo " m:0x0 + c:224" >> .xbindkeysrc > echo "xbindkeys" >> .xsession > > After this sequence of commands, you will have to restart the XO. You > will then be able to access the magnifying glass by pressing the F13 > key, the one to the right after the "volume up" key. > > HTH > > Andrea > _______________________________________________ > accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility >
_______________________________________________ accessibility mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility
