Application to enhance the desktop under the mouse with Openbox?

freyr · 2016-12-06 20:15:42

Hi!

I'm looking for a program that can magnify my whole desktop under the mouse and follow it, and not in a window but rather enhancing the whole screen like Compiz's Enhanced Zoom Desktop plugin.
I'm running Openbox so I can't use Compiz and GNOME Shell Mousewheel zoom, kmag and xzoom are only windows that show a magnified view of part of the screen, and everything else I've found while googling is either some built-in functionality of window managers or windows that show magnified views.

Is there anything I can use with Openbox?

Last edited by freyr (2016-12-06 20:16:14)

2ManyDogs · 2016-12-06 21:09:09

Have you looked at vmg? It works with openbox for me.

seth · 2016-12-06 21:58:37

This requires a compositor. Compton could, but does not support it: https://github.com/chjj/compton/issues/188
You can play with xrandr (lower the resolution, scale the output and use panning) but that could be slow and the viewport will only shift when you hit the edges.

2ManyDogs · 2016-12-06 22:00:03

seth wrote:

This requires a compositor.

I'm not using a compositor, and vmg magnifies a portion of my screen just fine.

seth · 2016-12-06 22:03:48

2ManyDogs wrote:

I'm not using a compositor, and vmg magnifies a portion of my screen just fine.

And is *explicitly* not what the OP is asking for ...
"not in a window but rather enhancing the whole screen" - I'm not aware of a vmg feature to do this?

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Application to enhance the desktop under the mouse with Openbox?

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