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NAME

       grabc - identifies an onscreen colour using a crosshair cursor.

SYNOPSIS

       grabc

DESCRIPTION

       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.

AUTHOR

       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