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
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@Mehrad @[email protected] @[email protected]
Kde is truly matured
I mean kde , not just plasma!
The whole kde@Mehrad @[email protected] @[email protected] Can’t you just do that with a screenshot utility like Flameshot?
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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
@Mehrad @[email protected] @[email protected]
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:
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@Mehrad @[email protected] @[email protected] 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. 🙁
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@Mehrad @[email protected] @[email protected] On my Desktop computer, running Arch Linux with Plasma 6.0.0, it works correctly. On my laptop with Fedora 39 and Plasma 5.27.10, it is bugged and doesn’t work properly (Both running under Wayland).
Anyway, a great feature! Thank you very much for pointing it out.
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!
Interesting, I think there was a Firefox addon way back that did this and mouse gestures.
What do you use it for?
