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A wlroots-compatible Wayland color picker that does not suck.

color picker wayland wlroots

C++ 90.1%
CMake 6%
Nix 3.9%

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README.md

hyprpicker

A wlroots-compatible Wayland color picker that does not suck.

Usage

Launch it. Click. That's it.

Options

See hyprpicker --help.

Installation

Arch

sudo pacman -S hyprpicker

Manual (Building)

Install dependencies:

cmake
pkg-config
pango
cairo
wayland
wayland-protocols
hyprutils
xkbcommon

Building is done via CMake:

cmake --no-warn-unused-cli -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr -S . -B ./build
cmake --build ./build --config Release --target hyprpicker -j`nproc 2>/dev/null || getconf _NPROCESSORS_CONF`

Install with:

cmake --install ./build

Caveats

"Freezes" your displays when picking the color.