Desktop zoom not working

[tofran]

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Operating System: Ubuntu 17.10 artful Budgie version: Budgie 10.4

The issue encountered

Budgie desktop Zoom in Universal Access does not work.

Here's a video from someone with the same problem that demonstrates the issue (Aug 25, 2017).

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Steps to reproduce the issue

Go to Settings > Devices > Keyboard to view/edit the following hotkeys:

Go to Settings > Universal Access and enable zoom (and change its properties).

Clicking the keys changes both the values and the enabled state of the zoom, but nothing happens.

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Troubleshooting steps taken

• Changed all the hotkeys to custom keys;
• Played with every single setting in the zoom menu;
• Updated software;
• Tried a new installation and multiple machines;
• Enabled and disabled Universal Access Menu;

[jamuir]

I hit this when I tried Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 from a bootable usb on my laptop.

However, my laptop has two display adapters: an integrated VGA adapter (intel) and a discrete GPU (nvidia). ~I think only the integrated VGA adapter was being used and so desktop effects were disabled, which would explain why zoom did not work for me.~ I have hit this same issue in Kubuntu.

[jamuir]

I've since learned that desktop effects work in kde even with the integrated VGA adapter. So my previous comment does not explain why desktop zoom was not working.

[minamfg]

Same Problem in Fedora 28

[ghost]

Same issue on Solus 3.9999

[fossfreedom]

As far as I can gather, the magnifier is part of gnome-shell not the underlying mutter window manager.

A project to implement this would be based around converting this bit https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-shell/blob/master/js/ui/magnifier.js into an equivalent budgie-desktop component. Looks interesting I guess if someone wants to have a close look at a future implementation.

Caveat here is the unknown part here - where we are going with future budgie v11 plans and therefore possible de-gnomification that may render a conversion of the above moot.

[harshitgarg22]

+1, I still have this problem on Solus 4.0 (GNOME 3.32.1).

[fossfreedom]

For UB 19.10 we are going to use the magnus project to provide the magnifier capability. Works quite nicely and I've added the integration part to ensure enabling through Settings - Universal Access works in budgie. Debian Mate / Ubuntu Mate are also going to use the project.

https://github.com/stuartlangridge/magnus

[HusDev]

Still not working!

[JoshStrobl]

@HusDev The issue isn't not yet resolved, which is why it is still open. Please don't necro issues, thanks.

[Unixware]

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