Getting rid of VMG menu

2022-02-19T10:39:18.471000Z

Just installed latest VMG. When I try to run it, I get:
john@JohnDesktop:~/Software/VirtualMagnifyingGlass$ /usr/bin/mag -r
mag (ps2pk) version 1.8
Usage: mag [-r] [-Rdpi] size . . .
What do these parameters mean? What is a reasonable invoking command?

Getting rid of VMG menu

2020-07-12T05:05:15.097000Z

Hi. I use VMG 3.71 with Ubuntu-based Linux. When I click on the box on the taskbar to invoke VMG, a menu drops down with many options. The first is "Show Magnifying Glass." Up comes the frame of the magnifying glass. But the menu doesn't go away. It lies atop some of the text I'm trying to read. Is there some way to fix this? I love VMG, and previous versions didn't act this way. Thanks.

Advanced magnifying

2020-03-27T22:22:20.090000Z

Hello,
I am sitting in front of my smart tv and use it for various things (preferably gaming), i do also have a computermonitor connected to my pc that stands about four meter away, on this monitor i use apps like backuppers and i want to monitor the progress but i cannot see the progress because it is to far away. I am looking for a fixed magnifier and if it would be possible a magnifier that can show a window (only a small part) on my smart tv from the computermonitor, i can't find any software that is capable of that. It is always under the mouse and that is not what i am looking for. Is there a magnifier that can do the job?

Thanks
Mondriaan

My whole screen becomes magnified?

2019-02-01T14:20:45.363000Z

Hello,

 I just downloaded VMC on my Thinkpad Yoga Carbon running Windows 10.
 The download seemed to go fine however when I click on the VMG icon not only does it 
 open the magnifier as it should (about a 1"x2"window) but it also magnifies the
 entire desktop. Is there someway to open VMC without magnifing the surrounding
 desktop?

 Thanks

Show cursor

2019-01-24T17:28:42.159000Z

I realize this is a really old thread but I cant find a solution to this either. I believe enrique really meant was to SHOW THE CURSOR ON THE ACTUAL AREA MAGNIFIED to see what is magnified. Ive installed the utility for my mother and she cant use it because this crucial feature is missing: either you see the magnified text and not what is magnified, or the actaul screen. Hoped for behaviour would be to show the magnified part on the SIDE of the actual mouse or cursor position. You know, like a baloon tip. Sorry for the lack of apostrophes - her keyboard is setup in another language and layout and you know how aggravating it is to get Windows to actually change keyboard layouts and stick to it until further notice.

Patches and updates

2018-10-05T14:55:56.251000Z

Good Morning,

I am a network security analyst with the Houston Police Department. We have a user that is interested in using your product. I have to do a security evaluation on the product before allowing it to be installed. Could you please assist me with answering the following questions? Some may not apply to your product:

Are there any port and protocol requirements for this software? If so, what are they?

What is the traffic direction? Inbound? Outbound? Bi-Directional?

Does the software require an active internet connection to function?

Does the software require any hardware to be connected to the computer in order to function? Would
drivers need to be installed?

What information is passed from the user machine to your servers?

What is the software lifecycle?

How often is this software updated?

Does it run on 32 or 64 bit OS?

How is authentication handled?

What language is the software written in?

Do you sign your code?

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Magnifier / vmg Not Launching

2018-07-03T17:18:19.311000Z

Hey Guys -

I was excited to find this app so downloaded, extracted, and installed it witrhout error. I couldn't see that an icon was made for it so found that /usr/bin/vmg was the executable so tried launching from that, but nothing happens when I execute it.

I've spent the past two hours working on this by manually building & installing each of the prerequisites (plus their prerequisites) on my system. Finally after doing this, I've made no progress as it still doesn't launch. It's now one of those things where I've got to get it to work as it's bugging me.

Below are some notes showing what I've done and current status. Any assistance would be great! It seems I'm the first to post in a while, so hopefully someone will still see this :)

Magnifier Installation
1. Downloaded & extracted magnifier-linux-3.5
1. Executed "sudo ./install.sh" which completed without issue

Current Result of "ldd magnifier"
I'm confused why some of the below aren't found despite seemingly having installed their cooresponding package listed in the next section
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xf7f30000)
ibpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7ef5000)
libX11.so.6 => not found
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => not found
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => not found
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => not found
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => not found
libglib-2.0.so.0 => not found
libgthread-2.0.so.0 => not found
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => not found
libpango-1.0.so.0 => not found
libatk-1.0.so.0 => not found
libcairo.so.2 => not found
libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7eee000)
libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7d3a000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f32000)

Pre-Requisites Installed
All of the below were successfully built / installed based on their individually included documentation. Some had errors during the builds requiring additional packages to be installed - some of which are included
atk-2.26.1
fontconfig-2.13.0
freetype-2.9
gdk-pixbuf-2.36.12
glib-2.54.3
gobject-introspection-1.54.1
gtk+-3.22.30
harfbuzz-1.8.2
* pango-1.40.14
A few pre-reqs not listed above were installed via Synaptic but don't remember which so to be sure, here's a list of all packages currently installed on the system

System Specifications
OS Distro: Gallium OS 2.1 (Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 base)
Kernel: Linux version 4.14.29-galliumos (reynhout@galliumos) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5))
Hardware: LG AIO 22CV241 ChromeBase (Gallium OS is Ubunutu derivitive for lower spec PCs - mostly ChromeBase conversions like this one)
Specs: Intel Celeron 2955U 1.4 GHz / 2gb RAM / 16gb SSD

This is driving me nuts so if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks so much!!

Under Ubuntu's Unity

2016-05-28T06:18:44.008000Z

By the way, a desktop launcher is included in the tar file I uploaded as part of Feature Request #101. https://sourceforge.net/p/magnifier/feature-requests/101/

Actual source code missing

2016-05-28T06:12:43.970000Z

I had had the exact same thought, but it turns out the code is available, just in a weird place. On the top navbar, click on Code. That will take you to the web interface to the svn repository. Near the top, there's a button that says, Download Snapshot which will give you all the code. You can also download it using svn:

    svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/magnifier/code/trunk magnifier-code

I agree that the code ought to be available in Files and more obviously linked from the home page, but I'm guessing the authors don't have enough people working on it right now to get that all sorted out. I hope they prioritize fixing it, though. There would be more people helping them, if they could find the source code.

LCLType LCLIntf, LMessages

2016-05-28T06:01:10.319000Z

LCL stands for Lazarus Component Library. Lazarus is an IDE to Free Pascal, similar to Delphi but much more portable.

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