Color calibration on Deepin

[Alberto Salvia Novella]

On Antergos Deepin, if I try to calibrate the screen with DisplayCAL, I get the following screen:

Installing the package colord-kde doesn’t make any difference. But installing colord-gtk or gnome-color-manager shows the following screen:

But there aren’t any system settings where to activate the profile.

In the Terminal, if I enter “colormgr get-devices”, I only get a list of printers. My webcam and my screen aren’t listed.

[Florian Höch]

The Deepin DE does not currently provide a graphical interface for profile assignment AFAIK, and while it is based on Qt, KDE-specific session helpers (such as colord-kde) may not work (same for Gnome-specific tools). You can try installing the desktop-agnostic xiccd (this doesn’t provide any graphical tools, but should enable colord integration in the session, thus making colormgr list connected displays and allow profile assignment).

[Alberto Salvia Novella]

I tried xiccd, but I haven’t made it work.

I have also opened a report at the Deepin project.

[Florian Höch]

I tried xiccd, but I haven’t made it work.

Create an autostart entry /etc/xdg/autostart/xiccd.desktop with the following contents (assuming xiccd is installed in /usr/bin):

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=xiccd
GenericName=X color management daemon
Comment=Applies color management profiles to your session
Exec=xiccd
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=

Then log out and back in (or reboot).

[Alberto Salvia Novella]

Interesting, it works!

I have written a script for that. It will work in any Arch based distro, and with minimum editing in any other.

Thank you 😉

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Alberto Salvia Novella.

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