Andreas F.X. Siegert wrote:
I am a bit confused as to why dispwin refuses to load the profile when run as a regular user whereas xcalib will do it. xcalib is not SUID root....
dispwin does a bit more than xcalib. It installs the profile by saving it away and registering it's association with the display that it was installed on. This allows it to be loaded latter on. Try running under strace to see the difference, and to get more information about what fails. Graeme Gill.