---
name: "kmag"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kmag"
version: "26.08.2-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kmag"
---

# kmag(1)

Screen magnifier

## NAME

kmag - Screen magnifier

## SYNOPSIS

**kmag**

## DESCRIPTION

**kmag**, also known as KMagnifier is a screen magnifier. You can use KMagnifier to magnify a part of the screen just as you would use a lens to magnify a newspaper fine-print or a photograph. This application is useful for a variety of people: from researchers to artists to web-designers to people with low vision.

## SEE ALSO

More detailed user documentation is available from **help:/kmag** (either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run **khelpcenter** *help:/kmag*).

[kf6options(7)](/kf6options/7.md)

[qt6options(7)](/qt6options/7.md)

There is also further information available at **the KDE accessibility project home page.**\[1\]

## AUTHORS

KMagnifier was written by Olaf Schmidt \<ojschmidt@kde.org\> and Sarang Lakare \<sarang@users.sf.net\> and Michael Forster \<forster@fmi.uni-passau.de\>

## AUTHOR

**Lauri Watts** \<lauri@kde.org\>

Author.

## NOTES

- 1\.

  the KDE accessibility project home page.

  https://accessibility.kde.org/