How do I measure the size of an area?

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Solution 1

There are two packages in the repositories:

Screen ruler

sudo apt-get install screenruler
kruler

I haven't tried either of them, but they might be what you're looking for.

Solution 2

Screen Ruler, which can be found in your Ubuntu Software Center is great. But there is also another excellent tool that is available from installing Screenlets from the software center. Just type "ruler" in the search box after installing screenlets.

Solution 3

Well if you are going to use it for web design or web development then I would use the Web Developer extension within the FireFox Web browser. It also has tons of other useful tools which can be very helpful in your designs or development. It works great for CSS designs.

Take a look at it here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60/ . I also think they have it for Chrome. This will provide you with a great on screen ruler for all your design projects.

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Craig Smitham

Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

Craig Smitham over 1 year

I'm looking for something to easily measure the height/width of items on screen in pixels.
- JorgeArtware almost 11 years
  
  Hi @Craig , if some of the answers provided solved your needs, could you please mark it as accepted?
koanhead over 13 years

I installed screenruler after reading this comment. It works well.
LassePoulsen over 13 years

Screenruler for Gnome (Ubuntu), and kruler for KDE (Kubuntu)
emf over 13 years

Whoah! +1 screenruler! this is awesome! This is a very necessary tool for desktop-customization and obsessive UI tweakers, like ms gamerchick. ;D
emf over 13 years

I will comment something I just found: Screenruler is good, but does not show a number of pixels by default, just a hardly-visible tiny hashmarks. you have to right click and set "track mouse" to do this.
gamerchick02 over 13 years

Glad to help out. :) I hope it helped the OP.
Dmitry Koroliov about 11 years

I installed screen ruler and for some reason it does not work. It is simply not visible, there is only the icon on the Unity launch bar. Does anyone know why? I have Ubuntu 12.04
Guillaume Massé over 9 years

screen ruler wont work with ubuntu 14
Adobe over 9 years

Both do not allow an arbitrary ruler angle.
Iluvathar over 5 years

Both links are dead now.
matthieu almost 5 years

Sadly, none of these applications let us measure things that are not either horizontal or vertical... I would love a tool that lets you click two points anywhere on the screen, and that tells you the distance between. Has anyone seen something like that ?
Heim over 4 years

Screenruler is a fantastic and fully-functional program, even now.
WinEunuuchs2Unix about 4 years

The second link is DOA.