mate-color-select

included in mate-desktop

MATE Color Selection with indelible swatches

• Palette default is Hue 15° * 3*8 = 360°

• Saturation 100%, Value 100%

• Grayscale line

• Default color

• Extra swatches for alterations

• All swatches are read/write

• Marked are indelible

• Keyboard support

• Runs under X11

---

Compile:

# autotools
./autogen.sh --disable-nls --disable-introspection && make

# meson
meson setup MY
meson compile -C MY

Run w/o install & sudo:

f="org.mate.applications-colors.gschema.xml"
d="$PWD/schemas/glib-2.0/schemas"
mkdir -p $d
ln -s ../../$f $d/$f
glib-compile-schemas $d

env XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:schemas tools/mate-color-select

env XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:schemas MY/tools/mate-color-select

---

Run w/o install:

d="/usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas"
sudo mkdir -p $d
sudo cp schemas/org.mate.applications-colors.gschema.xml $d
sudo glib-compile-schemas $d

tools/mate-color-select

MY/tools/mate-color-select

---

Install:

# autotools
sudo make install

# meson
sudo meson install -C MY

# both
sudo ldconfig
hash mate-color-select

Run:

mate-color-select

Uninstall:

# autotools
sudo make uninstall

# meson
sudo ninja -C MY uninstall
sudo rm /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled

---

Hint:

for problems with meson use sudo