Where does Unity store the chameleonic launcher/dash color?

Question

I would like to use unity's average background color (the color of the launcher) in conky, is there a (configuration) file which contains that color information? Or how could I fetch that?

Answer 1

As I was digging around the Dconf settings , I found this setting.

You can use this command to obtain the average background colour:

$ dconf read /desktop/unity/average-bg-color 
'#23d621a3050e'

Alternatively, run

xprop -root | grep _GNOME_BACKGROUND_REPRESENTATIVE_COLORS