Orginally forked from: https://codeberg.org/som/DrawOnYourScreen
Start drawing with Super+Alt+D. Then save your beautiful work by taking a screenshot.
- Basic shapes (rectangle, circle, ellipse, line, curve, polygon, polyline, 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
- Initial stylus support
- Export to SVG
- Better support for tablet, stylus and touchscreen
- Migrate to GTK4 and libadwaita
- Improve Perfomance
- Install it from GNOME Extensions
- Download and decompress or clone the repository
- Place the directory (the one that contains
metadata.json
) in~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
- Change the directory name to
draw-on-your-screen2@zhrexl.github.com
- Xorg: type
alt + F2
andr
to restart gnome-shell
Wayland: restart session - Enable the extension with GNOME Extensions or GNOME Tweaks application
Super + Alt + D
to test- https://github.com/zhrexl/DrawOnYourScreen2/issues to say it doesn't work
- Power is nothing without control:
The Ctrl
key provides an extra functionality for each tool.
Range of Ctrl key possibilities
- 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/draw-on-your-screen/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.
How to add images from Nautilus
- 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
).
- Color Picker extension:
If the GNOME Shell built-in color picker is too basic for you, have a look at the Color Picker extension, which let's you select the pixel accurately, preview the color and adjust its values. Once installed and enabled, it will be transparently integrated into DrawOnYourScreen.