Annotate your GNOME™ desktop with Super+Alt+D.

Documentation is here.

Thank you to all the contributors! 😎

• Draw over applications
• Basic shapes (rectangle, circle, ellipse, line, polygon, polyline, arrow, text, free)
• Basic transformations (move, rotate, resize, mirror)
• Laser pointer, highlighter (GNOME version 48 and newer)
• Blackboard and Grid
• Paste images from local computer
• Keep drawings on desktop background with persistence
• Multi-monitor support
• Save your work with Ctrl+S!!

IMPORTANT!!: Currently, this will only install to GNOMEv48 and v49. If you need the extension for another version of GNOME, see Option 2.

1. Copy the following command to a Bash terminal and press enter to run it:

   bash <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daveprowse/scripts/refs/heads/main/dog-install.sh)

   The script will attempt to identify your version of GNOME and install the correct version of the extension automatically.

   Note: Currently, the script will identify GNOME v49 through v40 and back all the way to v3.xx.

   Note: You may need to enter your sudo password during the install. Make sure you are a sudoer!

   IMPORTANT!! Always check scripts before running them! If you are uncomfortable running the script, or cannot run the script, then install manually with an option listed in the Documentation.

2. Logout and log back in.

3. Enable the extension:

• In the GUI

  • Open the GNOME Extensions App:

    gnome-extensions-app

  • Locate Draw On GNOME and enable it.

• In the CLI:

  gnome-extensions enable draw-on-gnome@daveprowse.github.io

  Note: You can install the Gnome Extensions App with the package gnome-shell-extensions-prefs within your Linux distribution.

4. Now go forth and use the tool by pressing Super + Alt + D.

   Note: You can discover the keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl + F1.

It's back to the drawing board my friends! Enjoy! 😎

Warning!! If you clone the main repository you are getting the latest features, but they have not yet been released, and might not be thoroughly tested. You've been warned!

📖 For manual installation procedures (git clone and tarball) see the Documentation.

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Thanks to the original author and past maintainers:

• Forked from: https://github.com/zhrexl/DrawOnYourScreen2
• Original work: https://codeberg.org/som/DrawOnYourScreen