One of the KDE Plasma features I use almost in daily basis is the MouseMark.
One of the KDE Plasma features I use almost in daily basis is the MouseMark.
One of the KDE Plasma features I use almost in daily basis is the MouseMark.
Go to your settings, in Desktop Effects, Enable the MouseMark (you can change the settings of it in the button in front of it). Then press Meta+Shift and move your mouse to doodle, or press and release Meta+Shift+Ctrl to define beginning and end of an arrow (it will draw the rest.
Interestingly enough, it have been in Plasma for the past 16 years:
https://github.com/KDE/kde-workspace/tree/master/kwin/effects/mousemark
@Mehrad @kde@lemmy.kde.social @kde@floss.social
Kde is truly matured
I mean kde , not just plasma!
The whole kdeI've been using plasma for over 6 years now and I'm just now finding out about this feature.
@Mehrad @kde@lemmy.kde.social @kde@floss.social Can't you just do that with a screenshot utility like Flameshot?
@Lenni
You can, and also @flameshot provides more tools and colors, but it is a "still frame" because Flameshot captures the screenshot first, and then let the user to annotate it. Therefore it is not useful if a video is playing in the background or slides are changing or moving through the code.Side note:: I'm one of the maintainers of Flameshot ;) and I'm glad you have found it handy :ablobcatattention:
Can you also send images of you using it? Not that I didn't believe it but I want to see how other people have been using it
I found a video on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/s/JHsMHtz9PF
Anyone know how to make it more intuitive? Like, only allow one, use an easier keyboard shortcut to activate?
I couldnt find "autoremove" and how to change the shortcut to activate
@Pantherina I don't know what you mean by Autoremove, but here are some tips:
Undo the last line by Meta+Shift+F12
Clean everything by Meta+Shift+F11
In the latest version (at least the one that is in KDE's git repo, users can change all those keybindings. Checkout
mousemark.kcfgandmousemark\_config.uifiles in this link:https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/46807b1a72f1d760b52b92a574face4a7a509a39
I don't yet have #Plasma6, so I'm not sure if it is already shipped there or not. But the code is done and it is just the matter of time :)
Thanks!
@Mehrad @kde@lemmy.kde.social @kde@floss.social
Awesome feature, however, the arror part doesn't work for me. When I press Meta+Shift+Ctrl and move the mouse, it looks like this:
@Larvitz
😅 😂 Yeah, That's why I explicitly explained the arrow-drawing process in my toot 😉 I also had this problem and figured out how to do it today. The keybinding and behavior for arrows is poorly designed imho and I hope KDE folks improve it.But for now, this is how you should draw an arrow:
- move your mouse where you want the arrow head to be
- press **and release** Meta+Ctrl+Shift
- move your mouse to where the tail should be
- repeat step 2
@Mehrad @kde@lemmy.kde.social @kde@floss.social Doesn't really work for me. Sometimes, a random arror appears that point nowhere near the mouse cursor position and most of the times, just nothing happens. 🙁
Interesting, I think there was a Firefox addon way back that did this and mouse gestures.
What do you use it for?