Bug#304450: RFP: grabc -- Simple color picker for window system
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : grabc
Version : 1.1
Upstream Author : Muhammd A Muquit <ma_muquit@fccc.edu>
* URL : http://freshmeat.net/projects/grabc/
* License : GPL
Description : Simple color picker for window system
(Include the long description here.)
grabc is s simple but very useful program to determine the color
string in hex (or RGB components) by clicking on a pixel on the
screen. While web browsing, lots of time you find a nice color and
wonder what color is that! Well just use grabc!
When this program is run, the mouse pointer is grabbed and changed to
a cross hair and when the mouse is clicked, the color of the clicked
pixel is written to stdout in hex prefixed with #. It will the R, G, B
component also in the stderr. Here's a sample example,
$ grabc
(mouse ponter turns into a cross hair and you click on something)
#b2c0dd
178,192,221
The string #b2c0dd is printed on stdout and 178,192,221 is printed on stderr.
This program can be useful when you see a color and want to use the
color in xterm or your window manager's border but no clue what the
name of the color is. It's silly to use a image processing software to
find it out.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
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