README.md

✨ What It Does

Color Picker DMS is a DankMaterialShell plugin that lets you pick colors from the screen and copy them in various formats. Left-click the DankBar pill to open a full-featured popout workbench (manual picking, conversion, palette management, contrast checking); right-click for a quick-actions menu including the screen eyedropper.

Features

• DankBar pill: left-click opens the workbench popout, right-click opens the quick-actions menu.
• Right-click DankBar pill menu:
  • pick color with the eyedropper
  • copy last color
  • copy HEX
  • copy RGB
  • copy all formats
  • add current color to palette
  • copy palette
  • open the workbench
• Control-center widget and detail view.
• Popout workbench with:
  • screen color picking
  • copy HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, and CMYK
  • persistent palette
  • manual color converter
  • WCAG AA/AAA contrast checker
• Settings for default format, backend, auto-copy, lowercase hex, and language.

Requirements

Required:

• DankMaterialShell >= 0.1.18
• wl-copy from wl-clipboard for clipboard copy

Capture backend: install at least one of:

• hyprpicker
• grim + slurp (magick/ImageMagick improves fallback reliability)
• DMS native dms color pick

Install

Option 1

Download directly from the DankMaterialShell Plugins page https://danklinux.com/plugins

Option 2

Download the latest release and extract the colorPickerDms folder into your DMS plugins directory:

mkdir -p ~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugins/colorPickerDms
unzip color-picker-dms.zip -d ~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugins/colorPickerDms
chmod +x ~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugins/colorPickerDms/capture/pick-color
dms restart

Option 3

Clone into the DMS plugins directory:

git clone https://github.com/bernardopg/color-picker-dms.git ~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugins/colorPickerDms
chmod +x ~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugins/colorPickerDms/capture/pick-color
dms restart

Then enable the plugin in DMS settings or add it to your DankBar layout.

Usage

• Left-click the DankBar icon to open the workbench popout (pick, convert, palette, contrast).
• Right-click the DankBar icon to open the quick actions menu (eyedropper + copy/palette actions).
• Use the workbench "Pick Color" button or the right-click "Pick Color" entry to sample a screen color; with auto-copy on, the configured format is copied immediately.
• Configure the default copy format, backend, auto-copy, lowercase hex, and language from plugin settings.