Kristian Lyngstøl wrote: > On 5/24/07, Robert Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, everyone. >> >> I had read somewhere that there existed a Beryl plugin for the purpose >> of enlarging the mouse pointer. Is this true? I've been experimenting >> with Beryl, and it uses hardly any RAM or CPU time on my system. I'm >> just completely amazed by it! the only drawback for me right now is >> that I do not know if anything exists to enlarge my mouse pointer. Is >> there anything out there like this? > > The only thing that exist is an option to enlarge the pointer while > using Beryl's inputzoom plugin, which means that it'll be > enlarged(zoomed) as you zoom in, which I suppose doesn't really cover > what you need. > > I'm working on Compiz' zoom plugin over the summer as a Google summer > of code project, and I'll need to enlarge the mouse pointer here too. > Since I'm already doing > that, it shouldn't be a problem to add a factor to enlarge the mouse > pointer when zoomed out too. Though the correct approach would > probably be increasing the size of the original pointer. > > What are your use cases for this? Temporary enlarging it, or more > permanently, for instance? > > There has long been talk about making Compiz (and Beryl) render the > pointer it self through the compiz core, so there will probably be > some more general work in this area too. > >> Thanks for any input. I look forward to seeing what comes from Beryl as >> far as accessibility. > > Not much, since Beryl is merging with the Compiz community, but you'll > probably see some accessibility enhancement from former Beryl > developers (like myself). > Hello, Kristian, and thanks for your reply.
As far as my use, I would use it as a screen magnifier. I have very limited vision (20/2000 in my right eye, and no vision in my left with no possible correction for either eye). I have enough sight, though, to work on the computer using a screen magnifier. Right now I use gnome-mag, and ti works just fine, but Beryl/Compiz seem to work much more smoothly and take up less resources on my system. Needless to say I am grateful for both, as I am now able to use Ubuntu as my primary OS rather than Windows. :) With Beryl/Compiz, however, I cannot find the cursor on-screen as it doe snot enlarge when I use the zoom feature. I am unsure of how to set it so that the cursor does enlarge on zoom, though. I'm not too worried, right now, about pointer tracking as long as I can find the pointer on screen. :) I'm just amazed with how all of this works. If I can offer any input, as I've mentioned before, please let me know as I use the magnifier function both in Ubuntu and Windows very heavily. Unfortunately, however, my programming experience is very lacking. nonce again, thanks for your response. Take care. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
