 What's going on guys? I hope everyone is having a great start to 2023. Today, I just wanted to make a really quick video about a need application that I just discovered that I thought was amazing. And I really wanted to share it with you guys because I think a lot of you guys probably have a use case for this particular kind of application. So this application is called Magnus. So let me launch Magnus here if I can spell it correctly. Now Magnus is just this window, right? So but look what happens when I move my cursor off the window. Can you see what Magnus is doing? It is magnifying that particular area. And I could resize the window so it's bigger. I could also zoom in right now. It's set to 2x, but you can go 3x, 4x, or even 5x. Let's try 5x. You know, I can really zoom in on something on the desktop and that is really, really neat. And you know, this is kind of a cool program, especially for those of us that make video content. Sometimes we're wanting to zoom in to certain things that, you know, like my text editors and terminal emulators, I can always zoom the text in and out in those applications. But some applications you really can't zoom in and out. For example, X-Mobar. I can't change the size of anything on my X-Mobar to show you, you know, some of the small text, but now I can just zoom. I can just put my mouse and actually show you all the little widgets in X-Mobar. That's really cool. So for content creators, this program, Magnus, I think, is a fascinating tool. I think a lot of people that do any kind of recording or streaming of their desktop, anybody that does presentations that involve stuff on a actual desktop, or possibly for even those that maybe have some accessibility issues, you got some vision problems, maybe you want to zoom in on certain things, because certain applications, they are hard-coded in such a way that some of the details of that application, whether it be text or buttons or things, are really small. And sometimes it's just handy to, if you had this particular application, Magnus hotkey, you know, you can just quickly pull it up and actually zoom in on a particular area to better visualize what's going on in that application. For those of you that want to install Magnus on Arch or any Arch Linux base distribution, you will find Magnus in the AUR. It's not in the standard repose, but it is in the Arch user repository, the AUR. So just install it using a AUR helper like Paru or Yay. For those of you that are not on Arch Linux, Magnus may be in your repositories. I think it is in the repositories on Debian, but I could be wrong on that. If it's not, if you have Snap available, you could Snap install Magnus. And I believe Magnus is available as a Snap package. And it says Magnus has been installed as a Snap. Let's see if I can launch it. Well, because I've got it also installed from the AUR Snap list. There is Magnus. Can I do a Snap run Magnus? So let's make sure that the Snap version works. And Snap version actually does work. Now one minor glitch with the Snap version is the title of the window. This is actually the word Magnus. It's three letters, right? For whatever reason, I guess whatever font is trying to use, maybe the font family is hardcoded or something. And for whatever reason, it can't display the title of window. That's no big deal. I mean, it doesn't affect the functionality. I mean, it works. But the menu system 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x also does not show up. Although, I mean, you could figure out which one is 2, 3, 4 and 5 in the menu. So if you had to install it as a Snap, it does work. Although that probably needs to be reported as a bug to whoever's maintaining the Snap package for Magnus because they need to correct that little bit of a font issue. Now one minor annoyance with Magnus, I wouldn't say it's necessarily a bug. It probably is a design choice. But if I launch Magnus here, and I'm running Htop, of course, Htop is a dynamic thing, right? It's going to constantly be changing values, right? But Magnus does not, right? If I, let me make sure that this window, you guys can see it, right? The CPU loads, you see the percentages, never change. As soon as my mouse hovered over Htop, it just freezes that image, right? That zoomed image, even though Htop would constantly be changing values, right? But if I move, you know, it will actually update those values. So that is something to be aware of that anytime you move the mouse, it'll refresh the frame. But if you don't move the mouse, it's just going to have that image frozen when you first put the mouse on that position. So there you go, a very quick video today about a really simple tool, but it's one that solves a problem. I had been looking for some kind of magnifying tool or a zoom tool where I could zoom in on certain aspects of my desktop when I'm recording a video. And when I was searching around, there's not a lot of these things available on Linux. Really, Magnus was pretty much the only one I found. And I was actually surprised. I was blown away when I used it. What a neat tool. I can't believe I had never heard of this before, as long as I've been using Linux. And I wanted to share it with you guys, hence today's video. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of this episode, James Maxim, Matt, Mitchell, Paul, Roy, West, Armor Dragon, Bash, Potato, Chuck, Commander, Angry, George, Lee, Methos, Nate, Erion, Paul, Peace, Archon, Fedora, Polytech, Realities, 4 Less, Red Prophet, Roland, Tools, Devler, and Willie. These guys, they're my hyster patrons over on Patreon. Without these guys, this quick look at the Magnus magnifying tool would not have been possible. The show's also brought to you by each and every one of these fine ladies and gentlemen and all these names you're seeing right now on the screen. These are all my supporters over on Patreon because I don't have any corporate sponsors. I'm sponsored by you guys, the community. If you like my videos and want to see more videos about Linux and free and open source tools like Magnus, support me. Subscribe to DistroTube over on Patreon. These guys, I should have checked to see if Magnus was available as a flat packer app image.