If I understand correctly, you want a portion or everything of a X forwarded window magnified. Why don't you just use the built-in windows magnifier?
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:03:59PM -0800, Visually_Improved wrote: > > Hey All, > > I have been using the x server based in cygwin for remote access into my > ubuntu servers for some time now. I am registered blind but have a little > sight left. I am working at the Royal National College for the Blind > developing assistive technologies. I would like to get quite a complicated > setup running. > > have cygwin running on a USB stick.This can be used on any Windows PC to > login to my linux servers running ssh. I am running fullgraphical Gnome > sessions on these boxes. > > I have the remote server exporting its display to the remote x server on my > windows machine. This is greate. I have managed to get this working with a > variety of windows based assistive tech but as yet I can not get the Orca > magnifier in Gnome to respond correctly from a remote session. I have > managed to get the magnified target and source setup on cygwin but the only > way to use full screen magnification on Gnome is to provide the mag app with > a source and target. If you have only one screen you can specify a > dummy\virtual screen that you can take the output from and magnify onto your > monitor. This works as the mouse and keyboard inputs go to that dummy screen > but in cygwin I can run two screens using the xwin options but I can not get > the keyboard input to register in the second window that does not have focus > on it. > > Can anyone come up with an idea of how to pass the mouse and keyboard inputs > to a xwin window that does not have focus? I have been mulling a few ideas > about to how to go about this but at the moment I am a little stuck not > fullyunderstanding what options I have open to me. > > In linux just modifying the \xfree.conf with a virtual screen and monitor > does the trick but I can not see that working on cygwin. > Any ideas would be kindly received > > Tommy L > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Remote-ssh-access-with-Orca-%2B-Mag-onUbuntu-tf4780059.html#a13675024 > Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ > FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
