Eyedropper-AppImage 🐧

• Latest Stable Release

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AppImage made using sharun, which makes it extremely easy to turn any binary into a portable package without using containers or similar tricks.

This AppImage bundles everything and should work on any linux distro, even on musl based ones.

It is possible that this appimage may fail to work with appimagelauncher, I recommend these alternatives instead:

• AM am -i eyedropper or appman -i eyedropper

• dbin dbin install eyedropper.appimage

• soar soar install eyedropper

This appimage works without fuse2 as it can use fuse3 instead, it can also work without fuse at all thanks to the uruntime

raison d'être

More at: AnyLinux-AppImages

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Known quirks

• Picking colors only works if the screenshot freedesktop portal is installed on the host (same as upstream).
• Global keyboard shortcut also depends on freedesktop portal and it doesn't work (at least on Gnome, KDE and other DEs are not tested)
• Search-provider integration works only on Gnome (same as upstream) & it depends on:
  • the desktop file being present (which AppImage managers like soar & am already take care of).
    Desktop file needs to be named com.github.finefindus.eyedropper.desktop for it to work.
    The only exception is the detection for desktop file eyedropper-AM.desktop in local directories, which is added as a support for am AppImage manager.
  • the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable having the XDG_DATA_HOME in path, which the AppImage will detect if not present + warn about & suggest the solution.
  • This operation won't be performed if search integration files already exist in /usr/share/ or /usr/local/share/, as it's assumed that the packager and/or system-administrator already handled that integration to the system. Modifying XDG_DATA_DIRS in that case is not needed.
  • If you use the AppImage portable folders feature, you only need to use portable appimage-filename.config and appimage-filename.cache folder to make the search-provider functionality work.
    • Those are the files that need to be in host's ${XDG_DATA_HOME} for search-provider functionality to work, which you can delete after the app uninstallation, along with other app dotfiles:
      • ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/gnome-shell/search-providers/com.github.finefindus.eyedropper.search-provider.ini
      • ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/dbus-1/services/com.github.finefindus.eyedropper.SearchProvider.service
  • When you click the color code entry to copy the code, it will copy it, but the notification about it won't show