Is there any application that provides a color picker for the screen?
For example: after starting the application the mouse is transformed into a color picker.
Clicking anywhere on the screen it will detect the pixel color.
Overview
gcolor2 is good but hasn't been updated in quite a while. There are two more recent alternatives out there, gcolor3 and pychrom.
gcolor3
The first one is a GTK3 port of gcolor2. There are no differences in the features it comes with as far as I can tell:
pychrom
pychrom on the other hand has a few additional goodies:
A couple of screenshots of pychrom in action:
Installation
The downside to these more recent color pickers is that they aren't available from the official repositories or any other repos for that matter.
gcolor3 you will have to compile manually. Please follow the instructions on the project page to do so.
pychrom is a python application and can be executed without having to be compiled first. The source archive comes with two files, pychrom and pychrom.desktop. To install the application simply copy pychrom to your PATH (e.g. ~/bin or /usr/local/bin) and move the .desktop file either to ~/.local/share/applications (user-bound installation) or /usr/share/applications (system-wide installation).
