Re: Gnopernicus

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Bill,

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 15:42, Bill Haneman wrote:
> There is however one important missing piece; fullscreen magnification
> requires two X screens.  This is a problem for most people's Linux
> setups, for obvious reasons which include limited support for multiple
> video cards, etc.  Xvfb doesn't do the trick since it doesn't do
> keyboard events, etc.

	XFree86 handles multi-headed video cards just fine - and they're cheap;
I have a Matrox MGA G400 AGP, which has dual outputs, I don't think
hardware support is such an issue.

>   Applications (e.g. the normal GNOME desktop) would
> write to this virtual screen, to which the keyboard and mouse would be
> connected, and the magnification service (which has a 'reference
> implementation' in "gnome-mag") would grab pixels from the virtual
> screen via normal X API and display the magnified result on the physical
> X screen.

	It's an interesting problem; hmm.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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