gromit-mpx.1

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.TH GROMIT-MPX 1 "November 3, 2018"
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.SH NAME
Gromit-MPX \- Presentation helper to make annotations on screen
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gromit\-mpx
.RI [ options ]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBGromit-MPX\fP enables you to make multi-pointer annotations on your screen. It can run in
the background and be activated on demand to let you draw over all your
currently running applications. The drawing will stay on screen as long as you
want, you can continue to use your applications while the drawing is visible.
.br
\fBGromit-MPX\fP is XInput-Aware, so if you have a graphic tablet you can
draw lines with different strength, colour, erase things, etc.
.br
Since you typically want to use the program you are demonstrating and
highlighting something is a short interruption of you workflow,
Gromit-MPX is activated by either a hotkey or a repeated invocation of Gromit-MPX
(the latter can e.g. used by other applications or your windowmanager).
.br
.SH KEYBOARD CONTROL
By default, Gromit-MPX grabs the "F9" key (this can be changed using the
"\-\-key" option), making it unavailable to other application. The
available shortcuts are:
.TP
.B F9
toggle painting
.TP
.B SHIFT-F9
clear screen
.TP
.B CTRL-F9
toggle visibility
.TP
.B ALT-F9
quit Gromit-MPX
.PP
.SH OPTIONS (STARTUP)
A short summary of the available commandline arguments for invoking Gromit-MPX, see
below for the options to control an already running Gromit-MPX process:
.TP
.B \-a, \-\-active
start Gromit-MPX and immediately activate it.
.TP
.B \-d, \-\-debug
gives some debug output.
.TP
.B \-k <keysym>, \-\-key <keysym>
will change the key used to grab the mouse. <keysym> can e.g. be
"F9", "F12", "Control_R" or "Print". To determine the keysym for
different keys you can use the \fBxev\fP(1) command. You can specify "none"
to prevent Gromit-MPX from grabbing a key.
.TP
.B \-K <keycode>, \-\-keycode <keycode>
will change the key used to grab the mouse. Under rare circumstances
identifying the key with the keysym can fail. You can then use the keycode
to specify the key uniquely. To determine the keycode for different keys you
can use the \fBxev\fP(1) command.
.TP
.B \-o, \-\-opacity <value>
will set the initial opacity of the window using a floating point value between 0 and 1.
.TP
.B \-u <keysym>, \-\-undo\-key <keysym>
will change the key used to undo/redo strokes. <keysym> can e.g. be
"F9", "F12", "Control_R" or "Print". To determine the keysym for
different keys you can use the \fBxev\fP(1) command. You can specify "none"
to prevent Gromit-MPX from grabbing a key.
.TP
.B \-U <keycode>, \-\-undo\-keycode <keycode>
will change the key used to undo/redo strokes. Under rare circumstances
identifying the key with the keysym can fail. You can then use the keycode
to specify the key uniquely. To determine the keycode for different keys you
can use the \fBxev\fP(1) command.
.TP
.B \-V, \-\-version
will show the Gromit-MPX version.
.SH OPTIONS (CONTROL)
A sort summary of the available commandline arguments to control an already
running Gromit-MPX process, see above for the options available to start Gromit-MPX.
.TP
.B \-c, \-\-clear
will clear the screen.
.TP
.B \-q, \-\-quit
will cause the main Gromit-MPX process to quit.
.TP
.B \-t, \-\-toggle
will toggle the grabbing of the cursor.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-visibility
will toggle the visibility of the window.
.TP
.B \-y, \-\-redo
will redo the last undone drawing stroke.
.TP
.B \-z, \-\-undo
will undo the last drawing stroke.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.B XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
Gromit-MPX uses this to determine which desktop environment it is running on.
.TP
.B XDG_CURRENT_SESSION
Gromit-MPX uses this to determine whether is is running under X11 or Wayland.
.TP
.B XDG_CONFIG_HOME
Directory to search for user's custom configuration file, defaults to
.BI ~ /.config/ .
.TP
.B GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS
If set, GDK does not use the XInput extension and only reacts to core X input events.
This renders Gromit-MPX unusable, it will detect this and bail out with an error message.
.SH FILES
.TP
.I gromit\-mpx.cfg
Configuration file which defines pens and maps mouse buttons and
modifiers to them. Searched for in user's custom configuration file
directory and, if not found there, in
.IR /etc/gromit\-mpx/ .
.SH BUGS
When there is no compositing manager such as Compiz, xcompmgr or Mutter
running, Gromit-MPX falls back to a legacy drawing mode. This may
drastically slow down your X-Server, especially when you draw very
thin lines. It makes heavy use of the shape extension, which is
quite expensive if you paint a complex pattern on screen. Especially
terminal-programs tend to scroll incredibly slow if something is
painted over their window.

XFCE per default grabs Ctrl-F1 to Ctrl-F12 (switch to workspace 1-12)
and Alt-F9 (minimize window) which renders Gromit-MPX's default hotkey
mapping unusable. Gromit-MPX detects XFCE and changes the default hotkeys
to Home and End. Those can can still be overridden by the user.

.SH AUTHORS
Simon Budig <simon@gimp.org>
Christian Beier <info@christianbeier.net>
.PP
This manual page was written by Pierre Chifflier <chifflier@cpe.fr> and
Simon Budig for the original Gromit and extended for Gromit-MPX by
Christian Beier.