wl-color-picker is a shell script for Wayland and wlroots sessions that lets you pick a colour directly from the screen and copy the result to the clipboard.
It uses existing Wayland-native tools to grab the selected pixel, convert it into a hex value, and optionally open a dialog so the colour can be adjusted before being copied.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Picks a colour from any on-screen location in a Wayland session.
- Works with wlroots-based compositors.
- Can open a colour selection dialog for further tweaking before copying.
- Includes a clipboard mode that copies the selected colour without opening the dialog.
- Supports notifications when a colour has been copied to the clipboard.
- Uses standard command-line tools including slurp, grim, zenity, wl-copy, and ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick.
Website: github.com/jgmdev/wl-color-picker
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Developer: Jefferson González
License: MIT License
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