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scindix

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From: Germany

Registered: 2013-05-07

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[SOLVED] Screen magnifier that doesn't blur everything

Hello everyone,
I'm working under gnome and want to use a screen magnifier.
I'm using this for UI development and thus I need to see individual pixels sharp and clear. However the standard screen magnifying tool under gnome tries to interpolate between the pixels and I haven't find a way to turn that off.

Everything I could find via google was this: https://linux.die.net/man/1/magnifier
It seems to have the following option that sounds like it is exactly what I need:

--smoothing-type=STRING
    image smoothing algorithm to apply (bilinear-interpolation | none)

However `gnome-mag` doesn't seem to exist in the repositories and it doesn't come with gnome itself:

$ pacman -S gnome-mag
error: target not found: gnome-mag
$ magnifier
bash: magnifier: command not found

Is there any software that fulfils my requirements?

Last edited by scindix (2016-12-29 14:10:15)

Morn

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Registered: 2012-09-02

Posts: 886

Re: [SOLVED] Screen magnifier that doesn't blur everything

kdeaccessibility-kmag works just fine and without any blur.

scindix

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From: Germany

Registered: 2013-05-07

Posts: 48

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Re: [SOLVED] Screen magnifier that doesn't blur everything

Thanks morn.
That was exactly what I was looking for.