Colour management and ICC profiles

asked 2014-07-01 08:29:29 +0000

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I have a really bad display without colour management. Within Ubuntu Unity, I use an ICC profile. The profile does not seems to be loaded when running an i3‑wm session. I though I just have to run the same application Ubuntu probably invokes for Unity, but failed to find which one it uses. I installed and tried xicc to load the profile, but this do nothing and my calibration test pictures still display badly.

How do one install an ICC profile when running an i3‑wm session ?

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answered 2014-07-03 10:06:39 +0000

Hibou57

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updated 2014-07-03 10:07:07 +0000

Answering to myself, still feel free to contribute any other answer.

Adding this to i3's config file (in ~/.i3 or ~/.config/i3), works like a charm:

exec --no-startup-id /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon

Tested with Ubuntu 12.04.

As a bonus, it makes Ubuntu fonts display a lot better (otherwise, Ubuntu Mono, as an example, displays uglier than within an Ubuntu session).

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For the fonts issue look into this thread [1] it did the trick for me too. I've followed the instructions there, and also I've added this line in my config file: exec xrdb -load .Xdefaults [1] bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=158621

Ruben G ( 2015-02-27 09:56:16 +0000 )edit

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answered 2015-02-27 07:54:04 +0000

Ruben G
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updated 2015-02-27 08:36:19 +0000

I've been looking this today in Ubuntu 14.04 onwards the command would be:

exec --no-startup-id /usr/bin/unity-settings-daemon

PD. I'm looking for how to do this in a dual screen setup outside the Ubuntu/GNOME world and I'm quite lost. Any help is appreciated.

PD2. I've found the answer in this thread [1] for doing it without the unity settings daemon, the argyll package must be installed and the command would be:

dispwin -d <screen number, 1 or 2 in my case, listed by the utility> -I <profile>

[1] ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1347896&s=3ead15925f2c9557a23b8fa8cce2d8e1

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