Re: [orca-list] magnifier

[<timothyhobbs seznam cz>]

Right now arch linux doe not provide a sure path to installing a working magnifier.  You can try it, and I hope it works for you, but it doesn't work for me.  I for example have arch, but in recent gnome versions there are breakages in the graphics drivers.  The full screen magnifier is unusably slow :(.  The problem is, that gnome stopped using the normal xserver graphics drivers in place of this new model that pipes through a special software emulation layer.  If you are lucky, this new method will work, and the proper graphics drives will just work.  This is not true in my case, and in the case of a number of other people I have talked to.  Right now I have xzoom installed.  But I never use it.  Instead, I've just modified all the font settings to be as large as I need and use pan zooming within evince for reading pdfs...  This doesn't lead to large text in the menues, but for me that's OK.  There is actually a way to set up a large text theme in gnome. But this is also unusably buggy.  The problem is that a number of applications do not know how to wrap their tool bars, leading to windows being larger than the screen in a crashy and chaotic fashion.

I wish you luck.
Timothy

---------- PÅvodnà zprÃva ----------
Od: Alonzo Cuellar <mariachiac gmail com>
Datum: 1. 10. 2012
PÅedmÄt: [orca-list] magnifier

> Hello everyone. I know this is not an ubuntu general discussion list. But will it include zoom or am I better off using arch, fedora, etc to have a gnome experience.
> I'd like to get xfce, but if its not fully accessible maybe I'll think elsewhere. I'ven to installed arch in ages and the efi thing seems a bit tricky.
> If someone can email me off list about efi booting, arch installation I'd appreciate it. the installation has changed and I've not bothered to install it.
>
> Thanks again,
> Alonzo
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