I should have said that running magnifier from Terminal (as instructed in Software Center) causes display of many 'We should clip at ...' messages but no ability to magnify portions of screen.
PS vmg/magnifier used to work in Lucid. So it looks like a regression bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-mag in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1128867 Title: App from gnome-mag package does not do anything Status in “gnome-mag” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: App (magnifier) does not do anything when run from Dash. Software Center states that app is named vmg & can be run from Terminal. Doing that causes 'command not found'. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gnome-mag 1:0.16.3-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-37.58-generic-pae 3.2.35 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-37-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Feb 18 08:47:41 2013 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-mag UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-mag/+bug/1128867/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
