UnWindows V1.1 is a collection of programs written for the X Window System designed to assist visually-impaired users who are not blind in working with a window-based workstation interface. The utilities are designed to provide assistance in two common tasks: locating the mouse pointer (footnote: The term 'cursor' is often used to describe the mouse pointer; we use the term 'pointer' to differentiate it from the text cursors associated with different shell and application windows.) on the screen, and selectively 'magnifying' portions of the screen. Mouse pointer location is given through both visual and aural feedback to the user. A modified version of {twm}, along with the {border}, {change_sounds}, and {coloreyes} programs, accomplish this task. Screen magnification is accomplished with the {dynamag} program. The individual programs that make up UnWindows V1.1 are each described in the user guide.

UnWindows (Dynamag) running under Linux BR Using Red Hat Linux version 5.2, we have been able to compile Dynamag, which is the magnifier component of UnWindows, and then run this magnifier. Only the "sticky window" feature of Dynamag does not work with Linux.

To compile Dynamag, you must first download and extract the files from the UnWindows distribution. UnWindows uses Imakefiles, so after you go to the "dynamag" directory, type the following commands to compile/build Dynamag:

These instructions should work on most Linux systems. When the build is complete, you may copy the file "dynamag" to an appropriate location on your system and run it from there.

See the explanation above for more information on UnWindows.

indepth/Unwindows (last edited 2005-11-04 19:53:08 by ClarissaCheung)