Simple Colour Picker

damo · 2017-07-19 13:27:53

Check out all the options for yad dialog - it is becoming a hugely useful tool these days. One of them is for a colour picker, which can be run with:

 yad --color --button=OK --undecorated --center

When you click "OK", the colour value (#xxxxxx) is output to the terminal.

I have this in the Accessories section in my menu.xml:

    <item label="Colour Picker">
        <action name="Execute">
            <command>yad --color --undecorated --button=OK --center</command>
        </action>
    </item>

And in ./bash_aliases I have

alias color='yad --color --button=OK --undecorated  --center'

johnraff · 2017-07-19 14:01:58

That is nice! Makes gcolor2 unnecessary.

cpoakes · 2017-07-19 16:01:17

Very nice. Added to my toolbox.

Steve · 2017-07-20 09:30:10

Cool, thanks Damo.

johnraff · 2017-07-20 13:19:41

damo wrote:

I have this in the Accessories section in my menu.xml:

    <item label="Colour Picker">
        <action name="Execute">
            <command>yad --color --undecorated --button=OK --center</command>
        </action>
    </item>

Come to think of it, how does this work? Without a terminal, where does the return colour value go? (I suppose it might be found in ~/.xsession-errors.) It might be nice to trigger a little script that put the return value into the clipboard instead of running yad directly?

cpoakes · 2017-07-20 17:48:59

My version:

yad --title="Select Color" --color --center | xsel -ib

This saves the result to the clipboard. If you omit "--button", you get both a cancel and an OK button. (I also prefer titled to undecorated). Xsel is standards compliant so I can only assume it is well-behaved with a clipboard manager (I don't use one).

p.s. You'll have to package that as:

sh -c "yad --title='Select Color' --color --center | xsel -ib"

for obmenu, or:

<command>sh -c &quot;yad --title='Select Color' --color --center | xsel -ib&quot;</command>

if you're editting menu.xml directly.

Last edited by cpoakes (2017-07-20 18:20:42)

damo · 2017-07-20 19:00:27

^ Thanks for that. I am working on something along those lines ATM.

Sector11 · 2017-07-20 20:18:27

Much nicer than my OB Menu entry:

yad --color
yad --font

Both excellent conky tools. Of course you'd be using them with graphics stuff.

Thank you.

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