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

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

Andrea Mangiatordi wrote:
> 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.

...
> Any idea on how to make it work better?

IMHO, the best way to do this on the XO-1 is to change the screen
resolution using xrandr.  This requires some fiddling with xorg.conf in
advance, but I believe it should be possible with the most recent Geode X
driver.  I also think this would be a great use for the disused F5-F8 keys.

Alternatively, you could use these keys to change the screen's DPI setting
directly, without altering the resolution, so that fonts and scalable
graphics scale up (or down).

--Ben

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