{"id":33361,"date":"2021-02-10T16:36:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33361"},"modified":"2022-11-09T08:28:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T08:28:37","slug":"start-drawing-on-screen-ubuntu-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/02\/start-drawing-on-screen-ubuntu-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start Drawing on Your Screen in Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Want to start drawing on your screen and save artwork as PNG or SVG? It’s easy to do this in Ubuntu via Gnome Extension.<\/p>\n

“Draw On Your Screen” is a Gnome Shell extension allows to start or stop drawing on screen easily via Alt+Super+D<\/b> keyboard shortcut. With it, you can start free drawing, create basic shapes, insert text, and export your artwork to SVG file.<\/p>\n

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1.) Install the Gnome Shell Extension for Ubuntu 20.04:<\/h4>\n

The extension is available as normal software package in Ubuntu repository. Simply open terminal either from your system app launcher, or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command to install the extension:<\/p>\n

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-draw-on-your-screen<\/pre>\n
Type your user password, if it asks, and hit Enter. For security reason, there’s no asterisk feedback.<\/p>\n
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2.) Enable the Extension.<\/h4>\n
The extension is not enabled immediately after installation. So you have to turn it on via the Gnome Tweaks<\/b> tool.<\/p>\n
1. First press Alt+F2<\/b> to bring up ‘Run a Command’ dialog box, type r<\/b>, and hit Enter to restart Gnome Shell without losing any running applications.<\/p>\n
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2. Install Gnome Tweaks<\/b> from Ubuntu Software if you don’t have it. Then open it and navigate to Extensions<\/b> tab.<\/p>\n
There turn on the toggle icon for the extension to enable it.<\/p>\n
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3.) Start drawing on your screen.<\/h4>\n
Now you can start drawing by pressing Alt+Super+D<\/b>, and leave the mode either by pressing the keyboard shortcut again or use Esc<\/b> key.<\/p>\n
In the drawing mode, you can right-click on desktop to get a list of menu options.<\/p>\n
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To draw rectangle, circle, line, insert text, and more shortcuts, press Ctrl+F1<\/b> to get help.<\/p>\n
For more about the extension, tips and tricks, go to the project page<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Install the Extension for Ubuntu 22.04<\/h3>\n
The original extension ends supporting up to Gnome 38. For Ubuntu 22.04 users, do the steps below one by one to install the v2 fork.<\/p>\n
1. First, open Ubuntu Software<\/b> then search for and install ‘Extension Manager’.<\/p>\n
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Install Extension Manager in Ubuntu 22.04+<\/p><\/div>\n
2. Next, launch ‘Extension Manager’ from Activities overview screen (press Windows logo key to activate).<\/p>\n
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3. Finally use Extension Manager to search and install the tool for drawing on screen:<\/p>\n
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After installed it, you may use the same shortcut (Super+Alt+D) to start drawing in Ubuntu 22.04 screen. Though, you can also go back ‘Installed’ tab in Extension Manager and configure the extension for more options.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Want to start drawing on your screen and save artwork as PNG or SVG? It’s easy to do this in Ubuntu via Gnome Extension. “Draw On Your Screen” is a Gnome Shell extension allows to start or stop drawing on screen easily via Alt+Super+D keyboard shortcut. With it, you can start free drawing, create basic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[689],"class_list":["post-33361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-gnome"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}