Drawing on the desktop in Linux KDE Plasma

Draw in KDE/Plasma without additional installation.

MX-19

System Settings > Desktop Behavior > Desktop Effects > Mouse Mark

MX-21

System Settings > Workspace Behavior > Desktop Effects > Mouse Mark

Allow you to draw lines on the desktop. And then you can take screenshots with these simplified drawings.

Default Keyboard Shortcuts

	Action	Keyboard Shortcut
1	Draw	Meta + Shift + moving the mouse
2	Clear last mouse mark	Meta + Shift +F12
3	Clear mouse marks	Meta + Shift + F11

Meta key - is a Windows Key

Default Settings

You can change color and width of the drawn lines in Settings:

System Settings > Desktop Behavior > Desktop Effects > Mouse Mark

Default appearance:

width: 3px

color: red

From: superuser.com: How To Draw An Arrow With Kde Plasmas Mouse Tracker