Pixie equivalent

[flamingsole]

So, one of my favorite little programs on Windows is called Pixie. It's by Nattyware, and it can be seen at http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html.

Essentially, it's a tiny little box that you can open over whatever programs you may have open, and as your cursor moves around it tells you the hexadecimal color value, the RGB color value, and the CMYK color value of whatever object your cursor is on. So, if you like a website's color, or your desktop's color, or whatever, you can easily grab it. It lets you hit CTRL C to copy the values.

Is there anything similar for Linux? Thanks!

Jon

[kperkins]

Not quite what you're looking for, but gcolor2 (http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/) will let you get colors from websites, programs, pics, etc.
It's in the repos, so easy to install.

[mrfreddy]

If you don't mind extra features you may want to try Agave (http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/). It's in the repo's.

* Generate 6 different types of color schemes: Complements, Split Complements, Triads, Tetrads, Analogous, and Monochromatic
* Select a color that's displayed anywhere on the screen ("dropper" tool)
* Easily change the lightness or saturation of a colorscheme with a toolbar button
* Copy the hexstring (e.g. "#336699") of a color to the clipboard for use in CSS and HTML files
* Save your favorite colors to a 'Favorites' list for easy reference and export your favorites as a Gimp Palette file
* Navigate back and forward through history of previously selected colors
* Choose colors from a palette of pre-defined "web-safe" colors (more palettes to come soon)
* Drag and Drop between Agave and the Gimp, as well as many other programs
* Generate a random colorscheme if you're stuck and need some inspiration.
* User interface translated into English, Dutch (nl), German (de), Spanish (es_ES), Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR), Russian (ru), Czech (cs), and Bulgarian (bg).