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by spookylukey 2627 days ago
Also, xmag, you already have it installed if you use the X Window System. It's 41kb, extremely lightweight (always starts instantly) and also magnifies a screen portion which is helpful for picking colours.
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Something I never realized about xmag is that if you click on a pixel, it tells you that pixel's color as a hex triple.
> you already have it installed if you use the X Window System

Maybe.

It looks like it's been spun out into `x11-apps` on debian based distros in the last year or two, and for some reason I don't have that package installed despite using X