[Digikam-users] suddenly cannot choose a monitor profile in settings

[Mark Greenwood]

On Tuesday 22 Dec 2009 09:16:41 Martin (KDE) wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 22. Dezember 2009 schrieb Guenther Erhard:
> > > > I cannot find anywhere in system settings that allows me to
> > > > select a profile. Nor can I find any reference to it in Google
> > > > or by searching the KDE site.
> > >
> > > So may be it has something to do with this:
> > > http://www.argyllcms.com/doc/dispwin.html#I
> > >
> > > It seems to go the same way as gimp and ufraw do it already. A
> > > dialog to query currently set display profile would be fine
> > > anyway.
> > 
> > Yes, that is possible, but "set | grep ICC" does not show any set
> > environment variable.
> 
> The data is not stored in environment variables but as property in 
> X11. For the dispwin tool the configuration is set in 
> ~/.config/color.jcnf. My data is set as:
> 
>   "devices": {
>     "display": {
>       "1": {
>         "EDID": 
> "0x00FFFFFFFFFFFF0015C37916010101010C0E0102681E1778EAA415A5544897250F5054BFEE000101010101010101010101010101010164190040410026301888360030E410000018000000FF004B353134333033340A20202020000000FD00374C183D08000A202020202020000000FC004C3336370A20202020202020200022",
>         "ICC_PROFILE": 
> "/home/blablub/.local/share/color/icc/devices/display/eizo.icc"
>       },
>       "2": {
>         "NAME": ":0.0",
>         "ICC_PROFILE": 
> "/home/blablub/.local/share/color/icc/devices/display/dell-L.icc"
>       }
>     }
>   }
> 
> If I load color profile (dispwin -L) the one for my current display is 
> loaded (here dell-L.icc) the eizo.icc I used with my old monitor.
> 
> > 
> > In my case I don't use dispwin - I use xcalib to load the
> >  calibration profile at every startup of X11.
> 
> I don't know xcalib, but it must do something similar.

Now I'm even more confused. I have never heard of xcalib or dispwin.

I have a monitor profile for my monitor and I want Digikam to use it. What is all this config files and load at startup of X11 nonsense?

Mark

> 
> > 
> > I second that: The possibility to choose a profile should still be
> > there. GIMP allows that too.
> > 
> > Guenther
> > 
> > 
> 
> Martin
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