Ubuntu with XFCE not loading profiles automatically on boot or after screen save

[Dokujaryu]

After using DisplayCal to calibrate my monitors the profile doesn’t seem to be loading automatically. Is there some additional step I need to take to make it load automatically?

Note, if I run the Profile Loader application, it loads the profile just fine. It just doesn’t happen automatically when I log in or after the screen saver is turned off.

Thanks!

[Florian Höch]

Is the file /etc/xdg/autostart/DisplayCAL-apply-profiles.desktop or ~/.config/autostart/DisplayCAL-apply-profiles.desktop present? Note that I don’t think these will run after the screensaver comes off, only on login. If a screensaver messes with the calibration that would be undesired behavior with the screensaver.

[Dokujaryu]

No, those files do not exist.

Are they in a different place in Unity? I switched from Unity to XFCE after I installed DisplayCal.

[Florian Höch]

Normally the loader desktop file gets created automatically unless colord is on the system and profile installation using it succceded, in which case it is assumed that colord will take care of calibration loading. If this does not work for some reason, you can create an autostart desktop file yourself that just calls displaycal-apply-profiles.

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