Magnification Problems

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The problem is generic for all desktop environments I tried (KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Mate, Cinnamon); however, if possible, I want to focus on Gnome. The problem is that when I use magnification, the screenshot and screen recordings I take shows the screen zoomed. It does not matter whether I am using windowed, fullscreen or partial mode, it will only capture the magnified region. Please do not suggest me to not use the magnifier since I cannot use a computer without it. I have put up a feature request for gnome; but, there is no activity on that request. I hope someone knows how I can achieve the outcome I desire since if we can resolve this, there will not be any reason left for me to not switch to Linux.

In your website you mention that you provide gnome with Fedora workstation for accessibility, does it mean familiarity or real accessibility? While I believe Linux has to poorest accessibility feature set out of the 3 types of Desktop OSes, I really want to give it a chance for its free nature. Does anyone have any suggestions on how can I make it behave how I need it to. I am open to any suggestion in this point unless it aims to dismiss the problem I am facing.

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Hi and welcome to :fedora: !

While I didn’t use the accessibility features before, I have made a test comparison between a Mac and Fedora with GNOME.

I can confirm that when taking a full-screen screenshot on a magnified display, the Mac will take a screenshot of the whole screen, as opposed to GNOME, which only captures the magnified part of the desktop. One workaround I can think of is before taking the screenshot, revert the magnification with Alt+Super+8, then take a screnshot of the whole screen with Shift+Print, then zoom in again with Alt+Super+8 (in case keyboard shortcuts provide enough accessibility).

As for screencast recording, both the Mac and GNOME act the same way, i.e. only recording the magnified part of the screen. Hardware and/or software limitation maybe. But I can understand how this is not very useful.