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It stays above other windows and gives you region screenshots, live system status, quick notes, a calculator shortcut, and a screenshot gallery without requiring keyboard shortcuts.\n\n![Penguin Tools floating toolbar](docs/toolbar.png)\n\n![Penguin Tools power tools panel](docs/power-tools.png)\n\n## Features\n\n- Draggable, frameless floating toolbar with a Windows 11 / PC Manager visual style\n- Compact light and dark appearances\n- Snap to the left or right screen edge, retract to a 14-pixel tab, and reveal on hover\n- Select any rectangular screen area using only the mouse\n- Copy the capture directly to the system clipboard\n- Also save every capture as a PNG in `~/Pictures/Penguin Tools`\n- Live CPU, memory, download, upload, and uptime status\n- Quick notes saved locally\n- Opens your installed Linux calculator\n- System tray controls, always-on-top toggle, and launch-at-login option\n- X11 and Wayland support through Electron's desktop-capture APIs\n- Optional BleachBit cleanup and ClamAV folder scanning from the Power Tools panel\n\n## Install\n\nInstall or update the latest release with one command:\n\n```bash\ncurl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dino65-dev/penguin-tools/main/install.sh | bash\n```\n\nThen open **Penguin Tools** from your application menu. The installer:\n\n- detects x86-64 or ARM64 automatically;\n- downloads the latest AppImage from GitHub Releases;\n- works without root access;\n- adds the `penguin-tools` command and application-menu entry;\n- falls back to AppImage extract-and-run mode when FUSE is unavailable.\n- detects a missing Wayland portal and installs the appropriate GNOME, KDE, Hyprland, or wlroots backend using your distro's package manager.\n\nPortal installation requests `sudo` only when the dependency is missing. Set `PENGUIN_TOOLS_SKIP_PORTAL=1` before the install command if you want to manage portal packages yourself.\n\nTo uninstall the application while keeping your screenshots and notes:\n\n```bash\ncurl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dino65-dev/penguin-tools/main/uninstall.sh | bash\n```\n\n## Run from source\n\nRequirements: Node.js 20 or later, npm, and a Linux desktop environment.\n\n```bash\nnpm install\nnpm start\n```\n\nOn Wayland, screen capture uses the desktop portal. Install the portal implementation for your desktop if capture is unavailable:\n\n- GNOME: `xdg-desktop-portal-gnome`\n- KDE Plasma: `xdg-desktop-portal-kde`\n- wlroots compositors: `xdg-desktop-portal-wlr`\n\nSome Wayland desktops show a one-time system screen-sharing chooser. That prompt is controlled by the compositor and cannot be bypassed safely by applications.\n\n## Power Tools backends\n\nPenguin Tools detects and integrates two established open-source Linux engines:\n\n- [BleachBit](https://docs.bleachbit.org/doc/command-line-interface.html) previews safe user cache, temporary-file, and trash cleanup before deletion. Cleaning requires a second explicit confirmation.\n- [ClamAV](https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Usage/Scanning.html) provides on-demand recursive scanning for any folder selected with the mouse.\n\nIf either engine is missing, open **Power Tools** and click **Install engines**. Penguin Tools detects APT, DNF, Pacman, or Zypper and uses the desktop Polkit authorization dialog; no terminal command needs to be typed.\n\n## Releases\n\nEvery `v*` Git tag automatically builds x86-64 and ARM64 AppImage and Debian packages through GitHub Actions and publishes them to GitHub Releases.\n\n## Build locally\n\nRun this on Linux:\n\n```bash\nnpm install\nnpm run dist:linux\n```\n\nThe AppImage and Debian package are written to `dist/`.\n\n## Mouse-only capture flow\n\n1. Click **Screenshot** on the floating toolbar.\n2. Drag around the area you want.\n3. Click **Copy** in the selection controls.\n4. Paste into a chat, document, or image editor.\n\nThe toolbar hides before the desktop image is captured, so it is not included in the screenshot.\n\n## Privacy\n\nAll screenshots and notes stay on the local computer. Penguin Tools has no analytics and sends no capture data to a server.\n\n## Known platform behavior\n\n- Multi-monitor capture targets the monitor containing the toolbar.\n- Network speed comes from `/proc/net/dev` on Linux. On other platforms it displays zero.\n- Calculator launching supports GNOME Calculator, KCalc, Galculator, MATE Calculator, and xcalc.\n- The app intentionally does not implement a privileged \"drop Linux page cache\" button. That operation generally makes performance worse and should not be presented as a RAM optimization.\n\n## License\n\nMIT\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdino65-dev%2Fpenguin-tools","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fdino65-dev%2Fpenguin-tools","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdino65-dev%2Fpenguin-tools/lists"}