A ZoomIt-like real-time screen annotation tool for Linux/Wayland, enabling live drawing, zoom, and presentation features.
Wayscriber is a real-time screen annotation tool for Linux/Wayland that enables users to draw, highlight, zoom, and present directly over any application. It solves the need for a lightweight, always-available overlay for presentations, tutorials, and collaborative work without interrupting the underlying workflow.
Linux users, particularly those on Wayland compositors like Hyprland, Sway, or KDE Plasma, who need professional presentation and annotation tools for teaching, demos, or remote collaboration.
Developers choose Wayscriber for its native Wayland performance, ZoomIt-like controls, session persistence, and extensive customization options, offering a seamless alternative to Windows-centric tools on modern Linux desktops.
Live overlay for drawing, annotating with zoom, hiding text, and capturing screenshots on Linux. Can be used as whiteboard or blackboard. Highly customisable. Written in Rust.
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Provides seamless performance on Wayland compositors like Hyprland and Sway using layer-shell, with minimal disruption to workflow, as highlighted in the platform support table.
Offers floating toolbars, radial menu, command palette, and configurable keyboard shortcuts, all editable via a TOML file or GUI configurator, allowing tailored annotation workflows.
Supports opt-in session restore that saves canvas and tool state across restarts, with CLI flags and tray menu toggles for flexible management, as detailed in the session persistence section.
Includes ZoomIt-style zoom controls, click highlights, screen freeze, and numbered callouts, making it ideal for live demos and tutorials, with presenter mode accessible via Ctrl+Shift+M.
Allows moving overlays between monitors with keyboard shortcuts and output-scoped session restore, enhancing productivity in multi-display setups, as described in the multi-monitor features.
Only works on Linux/Wayland with partial GNOME support and no X11 compatibility, restricting its use to modern Linux desktops only, as admitted in the platform support table.
Lacks some features found in alternatives like ZoomIt's break timer, and roadmap items such as saving annotations directly to images are not yet implemented, limiting certain workflows.
Requires setting up systemd services or compositor autostart and configuring keybindings, which can be cumbersome for users unfamiliar with Linux system management, as noted in the daemon mode section.
For screenshot functionality, relies on external tools like grim and slurp, though auto-installed by packages, adding complexity in source builds or when tools are missing, as mentioned in the screenshot tools section.
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