wmagnify(1)

✨ wmagnify(1) — the girlies' guide to zooming in on your screen ✨

okay so bestie, quick vibe check: this is the manual page for wmagnify, from the General Commands Manual. It's giving "I want to see everything bigger" and honestly? Same. 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

wmagnify — magnify parts of the screen 🔍✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

wmagnify [options]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So wmagnify is this iconic lil tool that lets you magnify parts of the screen. Periodt. 🌈

The way that it's different from xmag? (iykyk) The main difference is that here, the image is refreshed automatically, and it follows the cursor around the screen. No cap — it just keeps up with you. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

These are the command line options you can pass, bestie. All of them. Every single one. 💜

• -display display — show the magnified area on this display. Like, pick your display, queen. 🖥️
• --help — print a help message with the list of options. The classic "help me pls" move. 😭
• -m factor — change the magnification factor. The default is 2. Oh and btw you can also change this while the program is running, using the keys described below. Main character energy fr fr. 🔥
• -r delay — change the refresh delay, in milliseconds. Default is 200. ⏱️
• -vdisplay display — take the area to be magnified from this display, instead of using the same display as for visualisation. So like, source from one place, show it in another. Iconic. ✨

🧚 KEYS 🧚

These are the keys you can press while wmagnify is running to change its behaviour. Live, in real time, no reload needed. Obsessed. 🎀

• 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 — change the magnification factor. Just vibe-pick your zoom level. 🔍
• <space>, f — freeze the camera, making it magnify only the current position. Ice cold. ❄️😌
• n — create a new window. More windows = more slay. 🪟✨
• m — show/hide the pointer hot spot mark. Peekaboo. 🙈

💀 SEE ALSO 💀

• xmag(1)
• wmaker(1)

go read those too bestie, expanding your knowledge is self care 🌸

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Andrea Bolognani <eof@kiyuko.org> for the Debian project, but may be used by others. Shoutout to Andrea, absolute legend. 🫶💖

ngl this page is dated March 22, 2006, and it's the wmagnify(1) page from the General Commands Manual — oldie but a goodie, still serving looks. 🎀✨ bye bestie, go magnify something! 🦋💜