Ardesia turns your screen into a digital sketchpad to annotate or draw on the entire screen. It also lets you record and stream it on the network with vlc. You can draw upon the desktop or import an image as well as annotate and redistribute it. Ardesia is also pressure sensitive assuming your device is properly configured. USER TIPS: Ardesia is set to be 'always on top' and will be on top of even desktop panels. However, if you have shortcuts too or launch the program with '-d' you can toggle the 'always on top' option and the panel should be back on top. This will allow you to opperate at least operate the panel as well as minimize ardesia to regain full control over the desktop. Personally, they should of had a 'pass through' mode so that you would not have to hide the panel or the drawings to do things on the desktop. The PDF export will allow you to add new pages to a pdf that are screen captures of when the button is pressed. It does not save vector shapes. Fluxbox and Blackbox are not compatible! The program will draw black over everything and not allow you to access the tools the same goes for curtain and spotlighter (maintained by ardesia). Openbox works without issues. You are on your own testing other minimalist window managers. This requires gsl. Runtime Requires - A Composite manager (compiz, kwin, xcompmgr, cairo-compmgr, etc.) Runtime Optional - VLC for recording and streaming