Because the magnifier is not very good. It does not do full screen magnification is the main reason but there are many others suck as tracking, I guess you do not need to use a mag on the pc and therefore do not understand maybe. Another factor is the lack of magnification in the windows version. I work on R&D at the Royal National College for the Blind so I have tried and tested many options that well just do not work. The windows mag is one. Finally I am pushing for a move to Linux and using a system that relies on MS is not the best solution as we are teaching students.
Tom L Nick Douma wrote: > > 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/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Remote-ssh-access-with-Orca-%2B-Mag-onUbuntu-tf4780059.html#a13687470 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/
