glimpse

Appearance

Magnifier ​

The magnifier freezes the screen and shows a magnifying lens under your pointer, for checking alignment, a blurry icon or a one-pixel gap. Every option is in the command reference.

The magnifier lens over a frozen sky, enlarging the area under the pointer with a pixel grid drawn over itThe magnifier lens over a frozen sky, enlarging the area under the pointer with a pixel grid drawn over it

Zoom in ​

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glimpse-lens

The lens opens at three times magnification. Scroll to zoom from 1 up to 200 times; each notch changes the zoom by about a quarter, and by at least one step. From six times on, a grid shows the edge of every pixel.

To open it closer in, pass --zoom, for example glimpse-lens --zoom 12.

Change the lens size ​

Hold Shift and scroll to make the lens bigger or smaller. It opens with a radius of 180 pixels; --radius sets another size, from 10 to 200.

Move by one pixel ​

The arrow keys move the lens one pixel at a time, for when the mouse cannot land where you want.

Close it ​

Press Esc or right-click. The magnifier prints nothing.

Released under the BSD 3-Clause license.