What's a simple "colour picker" app for GNOME?
I need a small tool to ‘pick’ a colour anywhere on the screen (so that I basically get the hex code for it). Earlier, I've used KDE's KColorChooser for this.
According to this page, "Gpick" sounds like what I want, but:
$ apt-cache search gpick
<returns nothing>
Any recommendations?
Solution 1:
gpick
That's strange that you couldn't install gpick, as I get the following :
apt-cache search gpick
gpick - advanced GTK+ color picker
I suppose it could be in a source that you currently don't have enabled..
To pick a colour, launch Gpick, lcick on the swatch, and then press space when your mouse hovers over the colour you want to record.
gcolor2
That being said for simple colour picking I prefer gcolor2 - Nice and simple to use and should do exactly what you require.
You can install it with following command:
sudo apt-get install gcolor2
Solution 2:
I like to use the software agave. It's a simple software that gives your color combinations, and it has a color picker.
sudo apt-get install agave
Worth give it a try!
Regards
Solution 3:
grabc is as simple as it can get. Spawns a cursor, outputs color on stdout when you click. Pure Unix way.
$ grabc
#f47276
244,114,118
To install it, run sudo apt install grabc.
Solution 4:
There's a native color picker for HTML5's <input> tag built into all modern browsers (some screenshots).
Enter this in browser's URL bar:
data:text/html,<input type="color" />
and click on the rendered button. Bookmark for later use. Works offline.
(Technically, this is neither a dedicated app, nor GNOME-specific; which might exactly be the point: no install needed)
Solution 5:
I recommend GPick:
sudo apt-get install gpick
Applications -> Graphics -> GPick
It's got a lot more features than gcolor2 but is still extremely simple to use - click on one of the hex swatches, move your mouse around the screen over the colours you want to pick, then press the space bar to add to your swatch list.
It also has a traditional colour picker (like gcolor2) in the bottom right-hand corner of the window to allow you to pick individual colours with magnification.