https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/enContents © 2022 <a href="mailto:bgstack15@gmail.com">bgstack15</a> <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"> <img alt="Creative Commons License BY-SA" style="border-width:0; margin-bottom:12px;" src="https://bgstack15.ddns.net/.images/l_by-sa_4.0_88x31.png"></a>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 04:05:07 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/posts/2021/02/26/package-for-fedora-xzoom/bgstack15<p>I was looking for screen magnifier program. Fedora tends to focus almost exclusively on GNOME 3, which includes some sort of magnifier directly in the shell (I'm assuming). KDE has a screen magnifier, but I couldn't justify installing a whole 127MB stack of packages for a screen magnifier. So I found in the Debian repos <a href="https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xzoom">xzoom</a> package, which has minimal dependencies and actually does the type of magnification I am looking for: focus on a single part of the screen! I guess I was expecting to see a magnifier that follows the mouse focus. If I ever need that, I guess I'm going to have to keep looking for a solution. But, xzoom focuses on a specific part of the screen (which you can move, by clicking and dragging from the xzoom window, to the target area that should be magnified), and this is what I needed. I slapped together some SUSE package components, and some patches from a few places, and put <a href="https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/bgstack15/stackrpms/package/xzoom/">xzoom on my copr</a>. <a href="https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/2021/02/xzoom-demo.png"><img alt="Screenshot showing xzoom magnifying part of the screen" src="https://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/2021/02/xzoom-demo.png"></a></p>magnifierx11xzoomhttps://bgstack15.ddns.net/blog/posts/2021/02/26/package-for-fedora-xzoom/Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:58:01 GMT