Magnifier that follows your mouse around Kmag [solved]

Also, in kmag you can hide all the tool bars and the menu so that it shows just the magnifier as it looks on my screen shot.

"Zoom" in the "Seeing" tab of the "Universal Access" (in the "System Settings") has "Options". In particular, the magnifier does not have to be full screen. It can take half of it (and you can choose which half). And it can "Follow mouse cursor".

Yep, I just tested gnome shell and it's awesome. The zoom is just as you described and it even have an option so that the window magnifier its self follows the mouse around. I hoped that installing gnome shell would give the zoom option to gnome fallback as well, but that was not the case.

I think there should be a work around so that it may be possible to establish a height and width for the zoom. There isn't any option in the gui that I could find for that. Right now its height covers half the screen and it's width goes back to back, left to right of the entire screen even if you select the option for making the window follow the mouse. I'm sending a picture. I'm sure there must be a way to change that never the least.

Even thought gnome shell looks pretty good, it seems it does uses 3d acceleration am I right? So I will think that gnome fallback without compton should be lighter than gnome shell right? I don't now how light would be to use kmag since I think it probably has to load a lot of kde libraries to use it. I'll test it on my old computer and see how it behave.

For my regular computer, I think I'm still too emotional attached to compiz-plugins-extra xD which doesn't seem to work with gnome-shell very well at all.

I wonder if compiz-plugins-extra would be back in the next Trisquel release, or else I probably would keep using my work around if it still works https://trisquel.info/es/forum/bring-compizs-animations-add-back-aka-compiz-plugins-extra-solved

I really like GNOME Shell, I'll use it when I convert my Mac.

Misty here's a Trisquel 7 Gnome shell :)

Something I noticed about kmag, I had it running and tried to open Synaptic, but it wouldn't load till I restarted and ran it without kmag running. Considering my computer's low disk space and RAM, that's why.

I'd like to tweak it like arielenter says, but I need more guidance on it first. When I convert the mac I'll be able to use GNOME Shell so it'll have the better zoom features.

Misty, you will need to install x11-utils and wmctrl packages to use the code I'm sharing.

You could try to run line by line in terminal (except for the header #!/bin/bash which won't do anything) to see what each one do and maybe debug it if needed.

A bash file run all those lines for you instead of you having to run them one by one. Then, you could add the bash file to you start up application list so that it's executed when ever you start the your user session.

If you need help with any of this let me know and I'll be happy to help you :) , it is not difficult at all.

BTW. Here is the version of kmag I was talking about. I made a mistake, it's from Taranis and not from Toutatis as I first said.

http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/k/kmag/kmag_4.8.2-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb

I recommend to install kmag from the repos first to get all it's dependencies needed first, uninstall just kmag, download the package from the link, and install it. I recommend installing gdebi to help you install the downloaded package. Gdebi is a gui for installing deb packages very easily by just double clicking them once gdebi has been installed :)

Finally, lock the version of kmag in synaptic so that it won't get updated. Just look for kmag in synaptic, select it and then go package>Lock version on the menu, and that's it. Good to go.

Thank you arielenter. This is a bit overwhelming for me, so many instructions, and I really appreciate it. I already got it so for now I will keep it this way.

I wasn't going to spend so much time in this, but I was happy to see that some people like Misty were interested on my code. So I ended up improving the code to the end.

I'm Up loading my bash file which can be downloaded and given run privileges.

Here are some of the improvements I made:

- It waits for kmag to load just the necessary time needed. Before, one second some times was not enough.
- It automatically fits on your screen without having to tamper with the values.
- You can change the the position of kmag in the screen to bottom, left, right or top by just changing a single value.
- The code can be use with the kmag version on the repos and up.
- It automatically gives a F12 keyboard press every time kmag opens which makes it go to mouse mode when started.
- Checks if all the necessary packages (kmag, xdotool, wmctrl and x11-utils) are installed and gives you a warning if not.
- Starts kmag with menu and tool bars hidden.
- Hides the scroll bars of kmag out of the screen or they are left out of the reserved area so that they are cover by the maximized windows.

I might made a video on how to use it, although is the easiest thing to do. Just download the file, change its extension from .txt to .sh, give it run permissions, and add it to your starting programs. You can also run it from terminal or just by double clicking in the file if you configure nautilus correctly. That's what the video I might do would be about anyway.

See you around guys.

BTW. Don't trust all the codes downloaded from the internet xD . Mine doesn't need any root privileges and it really easy to understand, so make sure to just give it a look and you'll see there isn't nothing fishy.