SPOTLIGHTER(1)

✨ SPOTLIGHTER ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the spotlighter manual page 💖 it lives in the General Commands Manual section of your man pages, section 1, and it's literally about to become your new fave little desktop tool, no cap.

🎀 NAME 🎀

Spotlighter — a gtk interface to make annotations on the screen ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

spotlighter

that's it. that's the whole invocation. iconic, honestly. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so spotlighter is this adorable little tool that puts a movable and resizable spotlight right on your desktop. it's giving "stage lighting but make it software." 🌈

and the way that it's especially useful?? when you're making presentations and you need to hide and unhide things — boom, spotlight, done, slay. 👑

ngl it has been implemented for educational purposes, so it's basically a study buddy that also does theater. 🎓✨

🫶 how to actually use it 🫶

• move and resize the spotlight using fast gestures on the spotlight itself — yes bestie, just grab it and go, it's that intuitive 💅
• to quit the program, click on the white cross in the top right corner 🎯 (that's your exit, that's your goodbye, that's your periodt)

🧚 XInput-Aware, iykyk 🧚

Spotlighter is XInput-Aware, which lowkey means you can use it with a graphic tablet or a whiteboard 🖊️✨ so if you're the artsy annotation type, this one's for you fr fr.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

spotlighter was written by Pietro Pilolli <pilolli@fbk.eu> 🫶

This manual page was written by Karolina Kalic <karolina@resenje.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). 🌸

okay that's the whole page, you're officially educated on the spotlight situation 💖 go hide and unhide things, main character.

and that's a wrap, bestie — this page is serving August 10, 2011 energy, straight from the General Commands Manual, brought to you with love 💖🎀🦋