xfwm4 zoom, follow text-cursor

[Alistair Buxton]

The information can be fetched from AT-SPI2 accessibility over DBus.
However, if you change the way the zoomed area is positioned, all
mouse inputs will no longer line up correctly with what you see on
screen.

On 4 February 2018 at 11:44, Luuk van der Duim <luukvanderduim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Xfwm4 has desktop zoom (Hurray!) as I am visually impaired, this is an utter
> necessity. (I use my peripheral vision for mostly everything)
> And the implementation xfce has is great: continuous zoom, butter- smooth
> moving and solid. Thanks a lot for implementing zoom.
>
> Current behavior for the zoomed area is to follow the mouse pointer
> position.
>
> I believe it would be very convenient for the zoomed area to also follow the
> text cursor position.
> Currently, when I type my cursor 'walks out' of our zoomed area and I often
> find myself adjusting the zoomed area's position (with the mouse) to match
> the text cursors position. (if that makes any sense.)
>
> Would it be practically feasible to have xfce4 follow the text cursor aswell
> and analogue to the mouse poiter.
> Is there a common denominator for all/most applications' text cursors that
> can tell us where their cursor position is?
>
> Thanks!
>
>     Luuk van der Duim
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