ColorPicker

There are two types of color picker in Gpick. The embedded picker — the one which is part of the window, and the floating picker.

The embedded picker is easy to use — just press Space when the pointer is over the area you want to pick from. By contrast, the floating picker is more flexible — in particular it's more accommodating of window managers that use 'sloppy mouse focus', and almost as easy to use (press Ctrl+P, drag from the central cell in the swatch, or drag from the Gpick icon in the system tray). The result always (at minimum) is stored in the active swatch slot

You can set individually for each:

• Whether the result should be added to the palette
• Whether the result should be copied to the clipboard

In addition, for the embedded color picker, you can also choose whether it should rotate the active swatch slot; this will allow you to pick up to 6 colors in succession and have them fill successive slots in the swatches

The current sampling setting are shown in the Color picker tab of the main pane, under Settings