I need a small tool to ‘pick’ a colour anywhere on the screen (so that I basically get the hex code for it). Earlier, I've used KDE's KColorChooser for this.
According to this page, "Gpick" sounds like what I want, but:
$ apt-cache search gpick
<returns nothing>
Any recommendations?
That's strange that you couldn't install gpick, as I get the following :
apt-cache search gpick
gpick - advanced GTK+ color picker
I suppose it could be in a source that you currently don't have enabled..
To pick a colour, launch Gpick, lcick on the swatch, and then press space when your mouse hovers over the colour you want to record.
(not anymore available in Ubuntu 19.04+)
That being said for simple colour picking I prefer gcolor2 - Nice and simple to use and should do exactly what you require.
You can install it with following command:
sudo apt-get install gcolor2
gcolor2 is not on the Ubuntu repositories anymore, and has been replaced with gcolor3.
You can install it with following command:
sudo apt-get install gcolor3
