Named boards with custom backgrounds, quick slots, and per-board pages
Session persistence across runs, named session files, the top-strip Session popover,
and configurator catalog management. See Sessions and Session Manager.
Fast toggle via daemon and keybind
Low-latency drawing mode with optional vsync disablement and configurable 120/144/240+ FPS caps
Incremental dirty-region rendering keeps long accumulated strokes responsive
Screenshot capture to file or clipboard
Preset slots that restore full per-tool drawing profiles, with filled/empty slots
available directly in the top strip
Configurator GUI and full config file control
Zoom, freeze, click highlights, auto-numbered arrows, presenter mode, and light passthrough for clean callouts
Input HUD showing your keystrokes and clicks on screen for demos and screencasts,
with optional system-wide capture
Context menu, selection tools (Alt-drag or V), copy/paste, duplicate/delete shapes,
docked selection properties, and an expanded command palette for editing
External PNG/JPEG image paste as editable canvas objects
Configurable drag tools, including per-button left/right/middle bindings
Fixed-compass radial marking menu with press-flick-release tool selection, recent
colors, shape sub-menu, and an outer size ring
Screen eyedropper with a magnified pixel loupe, available from both color
interfaces and the command palette
GTK4 toolbars are used automatically on supported layer-shell paths, with a feature-equivalent builtin Cairo fallback.
The default top UI uses detached Tools, Presets, History, and Chrome islands plus a
contextual style pill for color, size, text, eraser, and selection controls.
The interactive chip HUD opens boards/pages, colors, the radial menu, and Help
directly. Canvas, Session, and Settings live in top-strip overflow popovers.
The Canvas popover re-homes boards, pages, advanced history, zoom, and Step
Undo/Redo controls. A bottom-right chip keeps the live zoom percentage and
zoom-out, zoom-in, Fit, and Lock controls available without a side panel.
side_layout = "panel" restores the deprecated four-pane side palette for one
compatibility release and shows a once-per-session map to the new homes.
Toolbars are configurable: show/hide individual items, collapse side sections, and
reorder top tools/top controls/side sections. Overlay preferences survive restarts in
separate runtime UI state without rewriting authored config.toml defaults. See
Toolbars.
Dark/light chrome and reduced motion are configurable under [ui].
The configurator has global search with scoped matches across tabs, sections, sessions, boards, presets, profiles, and keybindings.
The command palette has action icons, category headers, fuzzy matching, shortcut
editing, Save Preset 1–5 actions, and a persisted Recent section.
The help overlay is searchable and clickable, reflows to one or two columns, and can
replay the guided tour.
The first-run tour teaches colors/thickness, radial flicking, and Boards & Pages
using the user’s current bindings. Later, staggered hints introduce the chip HUD,
Canvas popover, and zoom chip without piling up, while the shortcut coach can
surface occasional key hints.
Prioritized notifications keep critical warnings and undo actions ahead of routine
information and hints.