Colour of Pixel Under Mouse Pointer

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I can see in KM prefs that this sets the pixel colour to SystemClipboard, but when I hit cmd+v to paste the value in an app, nothing happens. Am I misunderstanding how the clipboard works?

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You are setting a Keyboard Maestro Variable, named “SystemClipboard”.

You need to use the Set Clipboard to Text action or the Insert Text by Pasting action.

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Thankyou!!!

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Just chiming in, this helped me in 2025, what a great solution to an issue I was having! Thanks from the future!

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This looks great. How would the calculation work to return RGB values instead of HEX values? So, 255,255,255 for white?

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The PIXEL function returns the comment as a fraction from 0-1. So to get 0-255 you would multiple by 255 and get the integer value. Use Dec1 instead of Hex2 in the example I gave (use the Dec token).

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Perfect. Thank you.

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