wl-color-picker
A wayland color picker that also works on wlroots (by jgmdev)
swappy
A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS (by jtheoof)
| wl-color-picker | swappy | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 21 | |
| 166 | 1,464 | |
| 4.8% | 0.8% | |
| 4.0 | 6.1 | |
| over 1 year ago | 6 months ago | |
| Shell | C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wl-color-picker
Posts with mentions or reviews of wl-color-picker.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-01.
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swaywm color picker
wl-color-picker - grey color.
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Understanding Wayland issues on a permission system
wlroots has a color protocol (which probably uses the wlr protocols).
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Wayland doesn't support colorpicking tools. It just changes window focus while picking a colour. Any specific colorpickers for wayland ??
Apparently there is wl-color-picker. It could be specific to wlroots so you might just need to try it out
swappy
Posts with mentions or reviews of swappy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.
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MSPaint like tool for Linux
I think swappy works great as a screenshot annotation tool.
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Trying to use Swappy for the First Time
It will save the file in save_dir (see config section)
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Suggest me: Screenshot tool with anotation
Use any wayland compatible screenshot tool and pipe it into Swappy
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bindsym not working with flameshot
I combine grimshot + swappy to get something similar to Flameshot. Not as good, but it has the advantage of... actually working on Sway.
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How I chose the right screenshot tool for my Linux
I personally use grim + slurp + swappy, and i love it! :)
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redshift like gui application
If you want to edit the screenshot, pipe it through swappy
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swaywm color picker
For those sort of simple jobs, you might find that swappy is enough (and much faster to start and simpler to use).
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Screenshot in Sway
My fav is swappy.
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Lighter alternative to GIMP?
Sounds like Swappy. https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy
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What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
Screenshots: grim + slurp + swappy
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wl-color-picker and swappy you can also consider the following projects:
azote - Wallpaper manager for wlroots-based compositors and some other WMs
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor