[PLUG] Pick a color any color

Dan Haskell danh at f2it.com
Thu Apr 7 00:50:01 UTC 2005


On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

> I seem to remember an (X) application that allowed you to point at a color
> on the screen and it would report back its name and/or rgb components.
> It has been too long since I did this so tmpwatch on my brain must have
> deleted the name.

I remember that too. After fruitless searching I realized that it was 
xmag. You magnify a piece of the screen and then right click on the pixel 
with the desired color.

BTW, I found a cool Firefox extension called ColorZilla that does much the 
same thing within the browser.

Dan



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