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GRABC(1) General Commands Manual GRABC(1)

grabc - identifies an onscreen colour using a crosshair cursor.

grabc

grabc is s simple but very useful program to determine the color string in hex (or in 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.

grabc was written by Muhammad A Muquit <muquit@muquit.com>

This manual page was written by Sonia Hamilton <sonia@snowfrog.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

April 29, 2005