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Port details
colormeter X11 pixel magnifier with live RGB readout
1.0 x11 Σ=0 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 1.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: dteske@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-08-31 22:09:08
Last Update: 2026-08-31 22:04:04
Commit Hash: f439a4c
License: BSD2CLAUSE
WWW:
https://github.com/FrauBSD/colormeter
Description: #
colormeter is an X11 color meter: it magnifies pixels under the pointer and shows hex and decimal RGB in a status bar. Ctrl+L (global) locks or unlocks the sample; Button1 drag moves the window; q quits.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages: #
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist #
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  1. bin/colormeter
  2. share/man/man1/colormeter.1.gz
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/colormeter-1.0/catalog.mk
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/colormeter-1.0/LICENSE
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/colormeter-1.0/BSD2CLAUSE
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • colormeter>0:x11/colormeter
To install the port: #
cd /usr/ports/x11/colormeter/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install x11/colormeter
  • pkg install colormeter
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: colormeter
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port. #
distinfo: #
TIMESTAMP = 1784948179 SHA256 (FrauBSD-colormeter-1.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 8b6349d1d2aceffef9a3d2342daba3ec652948a5d14cd3ad24002f05de6999bb SIZE (FrauBSD-colormeter-1.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 10105

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC): #
colormeter
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386
FreeBSD:14:latest1.01.0--1.0
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.01.0--1.0
FreeBSD:15:latest1.01.0n/a-n/a
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.01.0n/a-n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest1.01.0n/a-n/a
Dependencies #
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Build dependencies: #
  1. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  2. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  3. xft.pc : x11-fonts/libXft
Runtime dependencies: #
  1. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  2. xft.pc : x11-fonts/libXft
Library dependencies: #
  1. libfontconfig.so : x11-fonts/fontconfig
There are no ports dependent upon this port #

Configuration Options: #
No options to configure
Options name: #
x11_colormeter
USES: #
localbase pkgconfig xorg
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message #
Master Sites: #
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/FrauBSD/colormeter/tar.gz/1.0?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 1 #

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
1.0
31 Aug 2026 22:04:04
commit hash: f439a4cd1e50979e4292b5cf708d25cbd99d5e55commit hash: f439a4cd1e50979e4292b5cf708d25cbd99d5e55commit hash: f439a4cd1e50979e4292b5cf708d25cbd99d5e55commit hash: f439a4cd1e50979e4292b5cf708d25cbd99d5e55 files touched by this commit
Devin Teske (dteske) search for other commits by this committer
x11/colormeter: Add new port

X11 pixel magnifier with live RGB readout from FrauBSD. Ctrl+L locks
the sample; Button1 drag moves the window. Installs colormeter(1).

Reviewed by:	jrm
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58429

Number of commits found: 1