Assistence iwth gnome-mag (magnifier) command-line parameters

[RKCole]

Hello, cerdiogenes.

Thanks for the information. I now have the latest version installed, and it works great.

There si one thing I am kind fo curious about, but I am not sure if it is somethign dealing with gnome-mag or just Ubuntu in general.

Basically, after soem time of using gnome-mag (activating/deactivating), my bottom panel disappears when I move my mouse pointer over it. The only thing which I have foudn to solve this, so far, si to hit CTRL+ALT+F2 to enter a command-line terminal and type:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

This works, but I have to ensure that any applications I am running (i.e. OpenOffice) are closed as when GDM restarts, everything is killed.

As I said, though, I don't know if this si a Ubuntu/GNOME issue ro somethign to do with gnome-mag.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Take care.

[cerdiogenes]

Hi RKCole,

I need more informations to try to realize what is happening in your computer.

Hello, cerdiogenes.

Thanks for the information. I now have the latest version installed, and it works great.

There si one thing I am kind fo curious about, but I am not sure if it is somethign dealing with gnome-mag or just Ubuntu in general.

Basically, after soem time of using gnome-mag (activating/deactivating), my bottom panel disappears when I move my mouse pointer over it. The only thing which I have foudn to solve this, so far, si to hit CTRL+ALT+F2 to enter a command-line terminal and type:

Can you give informations of how much is this sometime, how frequently you active/deactive gnome-mag and what is the process that you take to do this activation/deactivation? I try to reproduce it here without success.

Could you inform your computer configuration?

In the past, GNOME panels lost a property when composite where used (the windows could overlay they), maybe this can be some similar problem, but it's very difficult to track if I can't reproduce it here.

Best regards,
Carlos.

[RKCole]

I apologize, but it seems to just happen randomly. I do not think it is related to gnome-mag now, though.

[cheesphht]

Hello, cerdiogenes.

I will give this all a try tomorrow. Although I don't consider myself an advanced Linux user yet, I accept the compliment. I hope to be able to consider myself at an advanced level one day. Thank you for gnome-mag, as if not for it and the Accessibility Team/Community, I probably would have given up on Linux a long while ago because of my lack of knowledge and experience. Now, however, I plan to do a complete migration from Windows within the next month. Thank you.

As far as posting any issues/problems here, are there certain files (maybe in the /var directory) ro anything (maybe terminal output) that will be of assistance if any problems arise? If so, please let me know and I will be sure to monitor any log files or terminal output as best as I can.

Take care.

Hey,

I was wondering - did you ever get this to work? I'm new to Ubuntu and can follow that a little but . . . I really don't even know what "full screen mode" or - I forget the name of it now - means! I don't want it to, of course, magnify the whole screen (if it indeed means what it says which there is a lot of doubt today if anything really means what it says)

In windows I had a nice user adjustable box that I could virtually put anywhere I wanted and it would follow the mouse or the caret when I was typing. Is there anything like that in this Ubuntu?

Hope someone sees this.

[RKCole]

Hello, cheesphht.

I never did come up with the solution to this situation via the command-line. In Ubuntu 8.04, however, you can set everything you need through the Magnifier tab in Orca Preferences--if you are not familiar with Orca, it is a magnifier/screen reader. You can access it by doing the following:

1. Press ALT+F2 to open the Run Application dialog box.
2. When the dialog box opens, type in
   

   orca

   and press ENTER.

Orca will start and will read off options for you to select from by keyboard input.

In any case, there is a preferences button on the Orca application window which has a tab dedicated to the magnifier. I just tested this on my system, and it allows to dock the magnifier on the top of the screen.

Full-screen magnification refers to zooming in on the entire screen area. I used to dislike this until I began using Compiz Fusion with its eZoom plug-in. Compiz Fusion is a grahipcs accelerated window manager which has a lot fo features to it.

In any case, if I can be of any help to you, please e-mail me. I will be gone all day tomorrow, but I can write back tomorrow evening.

Please take care, and have a great day.