{"id":32677,"date":"2020-08-26T13:55:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=32677"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:30:16","slug":"gcolor3-gtk-3-color-picker-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/08\/gcolor3-gtk-3-color-picker-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Gcolor3 &#8211; A GTK+ 3 Color Selector and Picker for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gcolor3-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32678\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gcolor3 is a color selector and picker written in GTK+ 3. It is much alike Gcolor2, but uses the newer GTK+ version to get better integrate into modern desktop.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gcolor3 enables you to pick the color from any pixel on your screen. It also offers a palette, so that you can easily mix and match a couple of colors together.<\/p>\n<p>When you have found the perfect combination of colors, naturally you want to save them. Gcolor3 allows you to conveniently save and retrieve colors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By releasing version 2.4.0, Gcolor3 now is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.gnome.org\/World\/gcolor3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Color Picker<\/a>&#8221; with a new maintainer, a new icon, lots of new improvements, and many translation updates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gcolor3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gcolor3.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gcolor3-450x291.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to get Gcolor in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The latest Gcolor so far is available as Flatpak package. You can either download the package from the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/details\/nl.hjdskes.gcolor3' class='arconix-button-flat arconix-button-medium arconix-button-tan' target=\"_blank\" >Gcolor in Flathub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run following commands one by one to install the package:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install flatpak\r\n\r\nflatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https:\/\/flathub.org\/repo\/flathub.flatpakrepo\r\n\r\nflatpak install flathub nl.hjdskes.gcolor3<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flatpak-gcolor3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flatpak-gcolor3.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/flatpak-gcolor3-450x190.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To uninstall the software, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">flatpak uninstall nl.hjdskes.gcolor3<\/pre>\n<p><b>Prefer deb to the containerized flatpak package?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Gcolor3 has been made into the universe repository of Ubuntu 20.10.<\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu 20.04, you can grab the .deb package for 20.10 from <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/gcolor3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the launchpad page<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gcolor3 is a color selector and picker written in GTK+ 3. 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