Looking for a simple screen pixel ruler to run with Openbox

ninian · 2009-03-08 22:10:08

The title says it all, but I haven't found anything suitable despite searching quite a bit.
I'd like to avoid Gnome, KDE, Ruby, etc dependencies to keep an Openbox system minimal.
(I also know there's a Firefox extension and an Opera widget to do this, but I'd like a separate program.)
Any suggestions most welcome, or have I missed something obvious?

ninian · 2009-03-10 08:44:04

Does such a beast not exist?!

bernarcher · 2009-03-10 13:11:31

I didn't try it out, but what about this python script?
http://www.shallowsky.com/software/scripts/pyruler

Google is your friend.

Last edited by bernarcher (2009-03-10 13:11:59)

ninian · 2009-03-10 20:49:04

bernarcher wrote:

I didn't try it out, but what about this python script?
http://www.shallowsky.com/software/scripts/pyruler

Thanks for that link. It's pretty basic but it does the job okay. I changed the variable gStep = 10 instead of 25 as a 10px division for small ticks seems more reasonable.

anthillsocial · 2013-07-29 22:48:00

This is a very old thread but gnome-screenruler is very good indeed:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-screenruler/

jasonwryan · 2013-07-29 23:37:21

Please don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

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Looking for a simple screen pixel ruler to run with Openbox

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