On 9/6/07, Matt Graham <
danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
>
> After a long battle with technology, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to draw on my screen, have that show on the
> projected
> > screen and have the option to save that annotated slide for myself.
> > - Is there a Linux (or Linux utility) that lets the user use a tablet
> > PC in that manner?
> > - Is there any real downside to such a system (e.g. inherently
> > underpowered, etc)?
>
> The compiz "Annotate" and "Screenshot" plugins provide a way to do this
> *if*
> you're running compiz-fusion. Default keybindings: Alt-Super-button1 to
> draw things, Alt-Super-K to clear the screen. CCSM->Extras->Annotate to
> change them. There are probably similar ways to do this in Beryl. I
> didn't
> ever see anything like this for non-3D WM/DEs, even though at least one
> person on comp.os.linux.* asked about it in the last 2
> years. Problem: It's
> insanely difficult to input text in this manner.
So you are saying the Alt-Super-button1 lets you use the mouse to drawhand
freehand on the screen? That Alt-Super-K clears the drawings (surely not
the entire display)? and the CCSM->Extras- >Annotate (a menu selection I
presume) lets you change something though I am not sure what?
--
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being
either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George F. Will
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