Remote ssh access with Orca + Mag onUbuntu

[Nick Douma]

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
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