squiddy / wcolor

Color picker for wayland

wcolor

WORK IN PROGRESS!

Simple color picker for Wayland. Pick any color on the screen using the mouse. This is basically the Wayland aquivalent to xcolor.

Usage

Run wcolor and select a color. Its hexadecimal RGB representation will be printed to standard output.

Screenshot

Setup

• zig build
• zig build run

References

• https://github.com/ifreund/zig-wayland
• https://github.com/Soft/xcolor (the X11 version)
• https://github.com/emersion/grim
• https://github.com/emersion/slurp (consulting the source of grim and slurp helped a lot in understanding Wayland)