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hyprpicker — Minimal Wayland color picker for wlroots compositors (e.g., Hyprland). Requires a Wayland session. F

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Problem

How to use the hyprpicker command: Minimal Wayland color picker for wlroots compositors (e.g., Hyprland). Requires a Wayland session. For clipboard autocopy, wl-copy must be installed. More information: <https://wiki.hypr.land/Hypr-Ecosystem/hyprpicker/>.

Solution

hyprpicker — Minimal Wayland color picker for wlroots compositors (e.g., Hyprland). Requires a Wayland session. For clipboard autocopy, wl-copy must be installed. More information: <https://wiki.hypr.land/Hypr-Ecosystem/hyprpicker/>.

Pick a color in the default (hex) format:

hyprpicker

Pick a color and output in a specific format:

hyprpicker {{[-f|--format]}} {{hex|rgb|hsl|hsv|cmyk}}

Copy the picked color to the clipboard:

hyprpicker {{[-a|--autocopy]}}

Disable colored output (print plain text only):

hyprpicker {{[-n|--no-fancy]}}

Store the picked color in a shell variable:

{{color}}=$(hyprpicker {{[-f|--format]}} {{hex}})

Display help:

hyprpicker {{[-h|--help]}}

Code Snippets

Pick a color in the default (hex) format

hyprpicker

Pick a color and output in a specific format

hyprpicker {{[-f|--format]}} {{hex|rgb|hsl|hsv|cmyk}}

Copy the picked color to the clipboard

hyprpicker {{[-a|--autocopy]}}

Disable colored output (print plain text only)

hyprpicker {{[-n|--no-fancy]}}

Store the picked color in a shell variable

{{color}}=$(hyprpicker {{[-f|--format]}} {{hex}})

Context

tldr-pages: linux/hyprpicker

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