Wayland Color Picker GTK4 is a GTK4 application for Wayland desktops that lets you sample colours from anywhere on the screen.
Written in Go, it supports GNOME and KDE through XDG Desktop Portal, works with Hyprland via hyprpicker, and supports Sway and other wlroots-based compositors with grim and slurp.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Samples colours from anywhere on the screen under Wayland.
- Copies the selected HEX value to the clipboard automatically.
- Displays a human-readable name for the selected colour when available.
- Keeps a persistent history of the last 20 picked colours.
- Lets you copy previously selected colours directly from the history list.
- Provides a desktop launcher and installs icons for application menus.
Website: github.com/dachinat/wayland-color-picker-gtk4
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Developer: Dachi Natsvlishvili
License: MIT License
Wayland Color Picker GTK4 is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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