farge is command line tool to select pixel on the screen and return the
value of the color in either HEX or RGB format. The color code is
automatically saved to the clipboard. If you want to save the color,
farge is able to show the color in a image viewer with the color code on
it. This tool is able to use a varaiety of image viewers like feh,
mpv, nsxiv and sxiv. This tool works on X11 and Wayland.
Dependencies
bashimagemagickfeh(Other:mpv,nsxivorsxiv, but you must specify it using the--image-viewerflag)
If you use X11
xcolor(https://github.com/Soft/xcolor)
If you use Wayland
slurp(https://wayland.emersion.fr/slurp)grim(https://wayland.emersion.fr/grim)wl-copy(https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard)
Installation
Install as a package
farge is available in the Arch User Repository. If you use Arch or an Arch-based distro, you can use makepkg or your AUR helper of choice to install the farge-git package.
Install using make
# Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/sdushantha/farge
# Change your current directory to farge
$ cd farge
# Install it
$ sudo make installInstall it locally
# Download the farge source code, save it as farge
# and make it executeable
$ curl -L https://git.io/raw-farge > farge && chmod +x farge
# Then move farge to somewhere in your $PATH
# Here is an example
$ mv farge ~/scripts/Usage
$ farge --help
usage: farge [OPTIONS...]
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Click on a pixel on your screen and show its color value
optional arguments:
--help show this help message and exit
--no-preview dont show the selected color in a preview window
--no-color-code dont write the color code on the preview window
--rgb show the color code as RGB instead of HEX
--image-viewer image viewer to use to show the preview (feh, mpv, nsxiv, sxiv)
--notify send the color code as notification, where the icon is the selected color
--expire-time amount of time the notification should be visible, in milliseconds
--stdout output the color value to stdout
--version show the version of farge you are usingTips
It would be smart to bind farge to a keybinding. Here is an example for i3wm users:
bindsym $mod+Shift+f --release exec farge
If you use a window manager, you can assign rules the windows so they are
always floating. For i3wm user, put this in your config:
# Let the windows created by Farge be floating
for_window [instance="Farge"] floating enable
License
MIT License
Copyright Β© 2019 Siddharth Dushantha