Color Picker

Using LMDE (Debian 12), and it works great. I use Inkscape a lot and this is faster for me to just jump down to the toolbar of the OS and have a reliable color picker there. Nice for looking at websites and grabbing colors to pull into web design projects. Also worked flawlessly back when I used Linux Mint Ubuntu editions.

I am using Cinnamon 6.2.0 in the *experimental* Wayland session and the Color Picker applet technically works, but whenever I try to pick a pixel to get its HEX color code, it says “Color code '#000000' copied to clipboard”. While I personally haven't tested this applet in X.Org, it should work fine since Wayland support in Cinnamon is still fairly new. Please, @icarter09, if you can, kindly consider making this applet compatible with “Cinnamon in Wayland”.

Finally got fixed. Now, the color picker never gets stuck when trying to pick colors. Thanks to Siphalor for investigating and resolving this issue.

Switched to LMDE recently, never any trouble with Color Picker before this. Now it's very unstable (as others have noted) and so, unusable. Any word on debugging, please post. This is a valuable tool I'd like to have back.

but combination ctrl+alt+P runs perfectly. however I hope this gets fixed in future soon

sometimes it freezing any actions of windows on Mint 21.3 (and it had same issue on 21.2)

Don't work on Mint 21.1.

I have a bug on Mint 21.1 where color picker will after some use freeze some of my windows and the cursor will be stuck looking like the color picker cursor. Firefox and VsCode froze when using it so far. There is also the other issue that other users reported where the color picker will only work after clicking multiple times. I hope this gets fixed because the applet is otherwise very useful.

Great but don't work on Mint 21.1 as Secret-chest said 9 months ago : "changes cursor but does not pick colors only after multiple clicks"

A bit buggy (changes cursor but does not pick colors only after multiple clicks), however very useful.

very good

Color Picker wanted to install additional software & I was in a hurry so I quickly typed in my password and my laptop fan then goes from not running to making a racket like something big is going on. Gimp froze up & just about the time I was going to force it to close it began working again. Color Picker never gave any indication that it had captured a color despite the checkbox being configured to indicate so, nor would anything paste into the color changer HTML box in Gimp. I removed the applet & uninstalled but there was no indication that it removed whatever else it had installed. Being clueless I had to search for the proper terminal commands to see and it appeared that xclip:amd64 was what was installed but also man-db:amd64 at the same time. I purged xclip but was afraid to do the same with man-db because it appears that man-db showed a prior installation as well. My custom Tux penguin cursor/pointer now shows a crossed out circle on his belly whenever I mouseover a panel which never happened before. This was more effort than my brain can handle so I'm just going to return to screenshot-pasting into Gimp to match colors.

This is porbably my most used applet. It's amazing. Thank you!

The applet is wonderful, very good indeed!

Nice applet. It should zoom in the area to be more precise though. Like deepin-picker for example.

excellent applet

Running my screen on full resolution and HiDPI setting, I get weird color values. Mostly it's #000000 but there are some grayscales and even colors. But never the correct color...

+1 for an option to copy the hex code without the "#" symbol !

Just installed it on Cinnamon 3.8.9 under Mint 19, with all three dependent packages installed. No matter what I click, it reports the colour as black (#000000). Ideas?

What kind of clipboard does this app use? I can't paste it in PhpStorm, but I can paste it anywhere else and copy it again in order to paste it into PhpStorm. I don't know much about the Linux clipboard system. Only that there's a normal clipboard and a middle mouse click clipboard that copies whatever you select.

Excellent applet! I would only make the icon a bit smaller to better fit its appearance into the panel.

For those using Cinnamon but not Mint or a .deb based OS Arch pacman -S python2-xlib python2-numpy Using Pip installer with python3.x as the default and python2.x installed $ sudo python2 -m pip install python-xlib $ sudo python2 -m pip install numpy

It's a very nice and useful applet. Working like a charm. I just have one suggestion: Please, add an option to copy hex code without "#" symbol.

Works fine on Mint 18.2 X64. Very handy tool :)

It's not working properly on Mint 18.2 (Cinnamon - 32bit). It don't save the clolor codes. Indeed, using CopyQ, after pick a color you cannot find the color code in history.