[Sugar-devel] Accessibility: using VMG on the XO1

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 15:14, Andrea
Mangiatordi<andrea.mangiatordi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I am working on accessibility related problems on Sugar. I have spent
> some months in Uruguay working with children with special needs and now
> I am trying to organize the information I collected there. I would like
> to share with you some hacks and ideas.
>
> Here is the first post of a series.
>
> There's an interesting magnifier project at magnifier.sourceforge.net
> which can be installed in any Fedora using yum or downloading the rpm
> package from the project website. Binding it to a key using xbindkeys
> allows to have magnification of the part of the screen which is under
> the mouse, so that it can be used everywhere in sugar.
>
> How to?
>
> Follow this in terminal on a XO:
>
> sudo yum install magnifier xbindkeys
> echo "# Virtual Magnifying Glass" >> .xbindkeysrc
> echo \"vmg\" >> .xbindkeysrc
> echo "F13" >> .xbindkeysrc
> echo "keycode 224 = F13" >> xmodmap.conf
> echo "xmodmap xmodmap.conf" >> .xsession
> echo "xbindkeys" >> .xsession
>
> and then restarting sugar.
>
> This dirty hack sets the "vmg" command to be launched when the second
> key (from right!) on the top row is pressed.
>
> I know it is not an optimal solution, but I think it could be
> interesting to consider something like this for Sugar.
>
> This magnifier can be enlarged using the arrow keys and theoretically
> the magnification ratio could be changed using + and - (doesn't work on
> my XO).
>
> Any idea on how to make it work better?