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# colorpicker

> A minimalist X11 colorpicker.
> Any mouse gesture except left click will exit the program.
> More information: <https://github.com/ym1234/colorpicker>.

- Launch colorpicker and print the hexadecimal and RGB value of each clicked pixel to `stdout`:

`colorpicker`

- Only print the color of one clicked pixel and then exit:

`colorpicker --one-shot`

- Print the color of each clicked pixel and quit when a key is pressed:

`colorpicker --quit-on-keypress`

- Only print the RGB value:

`colorpicker --rgb`

- Only print the hexadecimal value:

`colorpicker --hex`
