colorpicker

A small tool for X11 that writes the color value on your screen at the cursor position to stdout, in RGB and Hex.

SYNOPSIS

colorpicker [options]
  -o, --one-shot:  one shot
  -h, --help:      display this dialogue

USAGE

Left click to print the pixel color in RGB and Hex. Prints again for each click. Any other mouse click exits.

$ ./colorpicker
R: 247, G: 247, B: 247 | Hex: #F7F7F7
R: 255, G: 255, B: 255 | Hex: #FFFFFF
R: 242, G: 242, B: 242 | Hex: #F2F2F2

The --one-shot|-o option prints only a single value then exits.

$ ./colorpicker -o
R: 255, G: 255, B: 255 | Hex: #FFFFFF

INSTALLATION

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install pkg-config libx11-dev
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ make clean

Run make uninstall to uninstall.

DEPENDENCIES

XLib

LICENSE

MIT