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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
