wayscriber is a ZoomIt-like screen annotation tool for Wayland compositors, written in Rust.
It works on compositors with the wlr-layer-shell protocol (Hyprland, Sway, river, …).
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Drawing & editing: Freehand pen, straight lines, rectangles, ellipses, arrows, and multiline text with smoothing; undo & redo; quick line-width and color changes via hotkeys or scroll.
- Board modes: Whiteboard, blackboard, and transparent overlays, each with isolated frames and auto pen contrast; snap back to transparent with Ctrl+Shift+T.
- Capture shortcuts: Full-screen saves, active-window grabs, and region capture to file or clipboard using grim, slurp, and wl-clipboard when available.
- Session persistence: Opt-in per board/monitor storage that restores your canvas plus pen color & thickness; inspect with wayscriber –session-info or clear with wayscriber –clear-session.
- Workflow helpers: Background daemon with SIGUSR1 toggle, tray icon, one-shot mode, live status bar, and in-app help overlay (F10).
- Click highlights: Presenter-style halo on mouse clicks with configurable colors, radius, and duration; follows your pen color by default, toggle the effect with Ctrl+Shift+H or swap to highlight-only mode with Ctrl+Alt+H.
- Configurator & CLI: Launch wayscriber-configurator (or press F11) to tweak colors, bindings, persistence, compression, and more; power users can edit the TOML or use CLI switches.
- Performance & reliability: Dirty-region rendering keeps redraws fast, while session files use atomic writes, size limits, compression, and backups for safety.
Website: github.com/devmobasa/wayscriber
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Developer: devmobasa
License: MIT License
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