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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 xzoom 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 xzoom on my copr.