Draw On Your Screen

Start drawing with Super+Alt+D. Then save your beautiful work by taking a screenshot.

Features

• Basic shapes (rectangle, circle, ellipse, line, curve, text, image, free)
• Basic transformations (move, rotate, resize, stretch, mirror, inverse)
• Smooth stroke
• Draw over applications
• Keep drawings on desktop background with persistence (notes, children's art ...)
• Multi-monitor support
• Export to SVG

Install

1. Download and decompress or clone the repository
2. Place the resulting directory in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
3. Change the directory name to drawOnYourScreen@abakkk.framagit.org
4. Xorg: type alt + F2 and r to restart gnome-shell
   Wayland: restart or re-login
5. Enable the extension in gnome-tweaks or gnome-shell-extension-prefs
6. Super + Alt + D to test
7. https://framagit.org/abakkk/DrawOnYourScreen/issues to say it doesn't work

Tips and tricks

• Draw arrows:

Intersect two lines and curve the second thanks to the Ctrl key.

• Duplicate an element:

Hold the Shift key while starting moving.

• Insertable images:

You can insert images (jpeg, png, svg) in your drawings. By default images are sought in ~/.local/share/drawOnYourScreen/images/ but the location is configurable in the preferences. Another way is to copy-past the images from Nautilus or any clipboard source by using the usual Ctrl + V shortcut inside the drawing mode.

• Eraser and SVG:

There is no eraser in SVG so when you export elements made with the eraser to a SVG file, they are colored with the background color, transparent if it is disabled. See “Add a drawing background” or edit the SVG file afterwards.

• Screenshot Tool extension:

Screenshot Tool is a convenient extension to “create, copy, store and upload screenshots”. In order to select a screenshoot area with your pointer while keeping the drawing in place, you need first to tell DrawOnYourScreen to ungrab the pointer (Ctrl + Super + Alt + D).