What is the crowd's opinion of gpick?

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There are a lot of color pickers you can install on any distro.

Gpick is my favorite. It sits in the system tray, when you pick you can magnify down to the pixel, you can create and generate palettes, and it's a low resource app.

I'm in the same situation, I had to look it up this week.

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What I've found so far:

- gpick : An application that lets you "pick" colors and find related colors (on Linux).

- Adobe color wheel: Website that lets you find related colors. You need an Adobe account to export the palette but you can still use the tool to find appropriate colors.

- Paletton: Website that lets you find related colors.

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I didn't try to import the palettes as-is in Qt stylesheets, but I copy the values in my stylesheet manually.

• Wallpaper: some green background color (#437740-ish)
• OS: Ubuntu 18.04.4 something something . . .
• WM: Regolith (i3wm)
• DE: Gnome
• Theme: Cahuella (mushed up all to hell)
• Icons: neofetch says this thing has icons. That’s news to me.
• Terminal: gnome-terminal
• Dotfiles: Please, for the love of all that is holy, don’t ask.
• Other: gpick, vlc

First rice, folks! woohoo!!!!

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The why:

Plain background is a workaround for ADHD maladaptions. (But I love busy backgrounds!)

Tiling wm is a partial workaround for OCD maladaptions.

Generally good workflow.

Pretty enough.

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Background:

So, the background is a solid color I found in the gnome background choosy thing. I figured it looked pretty okay. Then I realized it almost matched the colors I was playing with for my information bar. I apt-got that color picking program you see on the screenshot (it’s called gpick (still figuring out how to use it)).

It breaks my general rule of avoiding blues (for my eyes), but what the hell?

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Terminals:

I like the way the terminal colors look, but I want to brighten them. For whatever reason, urxvt never responded to .Xresources (I’ll have to dig into this) so, I don’t know how I can mess with the color palette. For the rice image, I used gnome terminal since I could easily change the colors.

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What’s going on:

Top screen

gpick, still trying to figure out colors

editing two of too many dang disparate configuration files for regolith

neofetch

poking at fizzbuzz (‘cause, sure!)

Bottom screen

vim, vim everywhere! It’s great, even for prose

vlc for movie night (the vacuum cleaner only accidentally matches the overall color theme)