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farge — Display the color of a specific pixel on the screen in either hexadecimal or RGB formats. More infor

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Problem

How to use the farge command: Display the color of a specific pixel on the screen in either hexadecimal or RGB formats. More information: <https://github.com/sdushantha/farge#usage>.

Solution

farge — Display the color of a specific pixel on the screen in either hexadecimal or RGB formats. More information: <https://github.com/sdushantha/farge#usage>.

Display a small preview window of a pixel's color with it's hexadecimal value, and copy this value to the clipboard:

farge

Copy a pixel's hexadecimal value to the clipboard without displaying a preview window:

farge --no-preview

Output a pixel's hexadecimal value to stdout, and copy this value to the clipboard:

farge --stdout

Output a pixel's RGB value to stdout, and copy this value to the clipboard:

farge --rgb --stdout

Display a pixel's hexadecimal value as a notification which expires in 5000 milliseconds, and copy this value to the clipboard:

farge --notify --expire-time 5000

Code Snippets

Display a small preview window of a pixel's color with it's hexadecimal value, and copy this value to the clipboard

farge

Copy a pixel's hexadecimal value to the clipboard without displaying a preview window

farge --no-preview

Output a pixel's hexadecimal value to `stdout`, and copy this value to the clipboard

farge --stdout

Output a pixel's RGB value to `stdout`, and copy this value to the clipboard

farge --rgb --stdout

Display a pixel's hexadecimal value as a notification which expires in 5000 milliseconds, and copy this value to the clipboard

farge --notify --expire-time 5000

Context

tldr-pages: linux/farge

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