The Windows operating system comes with a magnifier that can be used to magnify parts of the computer screen. It can be started by opening a run dialog window with [Windows R], typing [magnify] and hitting [enter]. The magnifier has a few limitations, the main being that it will always display the magnified part of the screen in a fixed window on the screen. This means that the user has to concentrate both on the mouse cursor and the part where the magnified screen is shown.
A better and more natural computer screen magnifier would be one that would magnify the screen around the cursor position. That is what Magical Glass brings to the table. The computer screen magnifier is completely hotkey driven. Hotkeys are available to turn the screen magnifier on and off, to lock it on the computer desktop, to zoom in or out, to change the size of the part of the screen that is magnified, to change the brightness and to capture the part of the screen.
The main hotkey is [CTRL ALT Q] which will turn on or off the screen magnifier. The rest of the functions can be accessed from the num pad on the keyboard.
The software is low on resources while running in the background. It uses about 3.2 Megabytes of computer memory which goes up to about 8 Megabytes when the magnifier is turned on.
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If you are using a MS Mouse (like a Basic Optical Mouse), you can use IntelliPoint to modify your Mouse Settings, including a Magnifier Glass. MS Software (ipoint.exe) uses roughly 7.5 MB of Ram (with/without magnifier function)
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Of course, it should be mentioned that this feature is built into Ubuntu and every other Linux distro that uses Compiz.
That’s pretty good to prevent eyestrain.