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One of the KDE Plasma features I use almost in daily basis is the MouseMark.
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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
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
π π Yeah, That's why I explicitly explained the arrow-drawing process in my toot π 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:
@kde@lemmy.kde.social @kde@floss.social
@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. π
@Larvitz
Basically this is the chuck of code responsible which is how I figured out how to draw an arrow:
https://github.com/KDE/kde-workspace/blob/257b997132217fd73a1b3be14db49735b64235e7/kwin/effects/mousemark/mousemark.cpp#L204-L214
I also don't see any part in the code that can throw the error. Considering that this is such a simple code and have not changed for about a decade, I don't think the issue is wayland/x11 either.
I suggest filing a bug report with the screenshot of the error and etc.:
https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=mousemark&list_id=2631036
@kde@lemmy.kde.social @kde@floss.social
@Larvitz
It seems the Github mirror is way out of date. I checked the https://invent.kde.org (the KDE's Gitlab instance) and found out that during the past 6 months MouseMark has received some updates, especially about the logic of arrow drawing:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/46807b1a72f1d760b52b92a574face4a7a509a39
But as far as I can tell, even if you have the latest build from the latest source code, the general process of drawing is the same:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/blob/master/src/plugins/mousemark/mousemark.cpp#L178-192
@kde@lemmy.kde.social @kde@floss.social
@Mehrad @kde@lemmy.kde.social @kde@floss.social 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.