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README.md

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, 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

Details

  • Draw arrows:

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

How to draw an arrow

  • Duplicate an element:

Hold the Shift key while starting moving.

How to duplicate an element

  • 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).