wl-color-picker

A script that provides a working color picker for wayland and wlroots by leveraging grim and slurp.

Usage

• Command wl-color-picker - Select position on screen and open color picker window
• Command wl-color-picker clipboard - Select position on screen without opening color picker window, just copy selected color to clipboard

Inspiration

This script is possible by the information provided on the following sites:

• https://www.trst.co/simple-colour-picker-in-sway-wayland.html
• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/320070/is-there-a-colour-picker-that-works-with-wayland-or-xwayland/523805#523805

Artwork

The icon was taken from the gcolor3 icon shipped with the papirus icon theme, so all credits go to the papirus icon designers.

Dependencies

• slurp - provides the screen location picker
• grim - uses the location provided by slurp and generates a pixel
• convert - uitlity from imagemagick to make the pixel a hex number (graphicsmagick is also supported)
• zenity - display a nice color selector dialog where the picked color can be tweaked further
• wl-copy - copy the selected color to the clipboard

Packages

ArchLinux - install from AUR

yay -S wl-color-picker