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How to build ColorGrab color picker from source on OpenBSD

Description: A cross-platform color picker.

Features:

  • Pick colors from screen.
  • Magnify screen.
  • Convert between color models and representations.
  • Palette tool.

Instructions:

doas pkg_add wxWidgets-gtk3 cmake
# we'll have to try develop branch because of this issue:
# https://github.com/nielssp/colorgrab/issues/10
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Acolarh/colorgrab -b develop
cd colorgrab
cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
make
# to install
doas make install

After install you can just run it from the application menu, or simply run colorgrab from terminal.

To pick a color, click and drag the dropper button to point to somewhere on the screen.

License: MIT Expat

Project source: https://github.com/nielssp/colorgrab

To build master branch

There is an issue when building the project with wxWidgets version 3. This can be fixed with this commit applied as a patch.