Post #2217707

#ColorManagement #Linux #AskFedi #BoostsWelcome My laptop has a monitor with pretty terrible color reproduction—it has a greenish tint. I've configured Xorg to load the monitor's color correction profile from the right ICC file at startup using xiccd, and this significantly improves the colors in all applications. However, many applications (all the ones i use for photos, graphics, video editing, etc. —RawTherapee, GIMP, Inkscape, Geeqie, etc., but also Firefox, for example) offer an additional option within them to apply a monitor color profile to the images they display. This can be the “system” profile—in my case, the one loaded by xiccd when Xorg starts—or another one from a different ICC/ICM file. If i enable it with the “system” color profile, the colors of the images within the applications change further, but shouldn’t it be enough to apply the color profile to Xorg, which already changes the colors in all applications? I'm worried that by applying the same color profile first to Xorg as a whole (and thus to all applications running under it), and then in individual applications, i’m actually messing up the colors...