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Nice little tool. Love it. Have on my system for years. Does what it does. Still works fine. Thanks for keeping up the PKGBUILD.

"Upstream" and "source" need update. https not http.

 Upstream URL:   ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/libs/X/
 9  url="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/libs/X/"
13 source=("http://webdiis.unizar.es/pub/unix/X11/xzoom-0.3.tgz" "xzoom.diff")

$ curl -IL ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/libs/X/

curl: (7) Failed to connect to sunsite.unc.edu port 21 after 126 ms: Could not connect to server

$ curl -IL sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/libs/X/

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
location: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/libs/X/

$ curl -IL https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/libs/X/xzoom-0.3.tgz

HTTP/2 200

So it is there on "https". That is the famous ibiblio mirrors, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibiblio This should be the "Source". And https not http. And the homepage, "Upstream" should be https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/libs/X/" if nothing better is found.

Although beware it's there on the ibiblio mirrors untouched since 2003

[ ]         xzoom-0.3.tgz           2003-10-21 18:52 8.9K

$ tar xf xzoom-0.3.tgz

.rw-r--r--  642 a1 17 Apr  1996 Imakefile
.rw-r--r--  988 a1 30 May  1996 README
.rw-r--r--  19k a1 29 May  1996 xzoom.c
.rw-r--r--  694 a1 30 May  1996 xzoom.lsm
.rw-r--r-- 5.3k a1 17 Apr  1996 xzoom.man

Ouch, and the files were last modified in 1996 !!!

Impossible to find the author "Itay Nahshon" on the Internet.

As an alternative, the only modern forks or repos I could find were.

https://github.com/cpantel/xzoom

https://github.com/mbarakatt/xzoom-follow-mouse

@gigamicro fixed, thank you! :-)

currently doesn't build; fixed by #include-ing <unistd.h> in xzoom.c

@badderman xzoom works the way it works, anyway under Xfce you can zoom in following mouse movement by pressing a key (default "alt", but it can be changed) and using the mouse wheel to zoom in and out; I suppose this can be done under Gnome and Kde too, in some way or another.

How to zoom in following mouse movement (Live Zoom Mode) instead of the fixed area? like MacOS or ZoomIt in Windows?

or

How to zoom in without showing own window like a transparent xzoom window?

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Windows has solution with Magnification API:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25497061/how-do-i-exclude-my-own-window-without-flicker-when-i-take-a-screenshot

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/magapi/magapi-intro?redirectedfrom=MSDN

@eliran should work again now. For some reason makepkg doesn't currently automatically ungzip xzoom_0.3-23.diff.gz, so I added to the PKGBUILD some lines that explicitly do.

/var/tmp/pamac-build-xyz/xzoom/PKGBUILD: line 18: /var/tmp/pamac-build-xyz/xzoom/src/xzoom_0.3-23.diff: No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().