[argyllcms] Re: How can I tell if I'm using my profile? (and other questions)

On Thursday 30 October 2008 12:29:15 Adrian Mariano wrote:
> Hal V. Engel wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 October 2008 10:21:28 Adrian Mariano wrote:
> >> In my case I believe that I ran 'dispwin profile.icc' without the -I
> >> option.  Does this load the profile or does it only load the calibration
> >> contained in the profile?  I think that you have to restart firefox to
> >> get changes in the profile to be recognized.   I have the color
> >> management extension installed in firefox and there is a box where I can
> >> specify the profile filename; when I specified the color swapped profile
> >> and then restarted firefox I did observe the swapped colors used in
> >> firefox.  (In fact, they were used throughout the application, for
> >> menus, backgrounds, etc., so the change was very obvious.)   But if it's
> >> not honoring the properly installed profile perhaps we need to submit a
> >> bug report.
> >
> > Done see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462398
>
> Thanks.  Definitely a better bug report than I could have managed.
>
> >> I was displaying my images with xv which I'd be willing to bet does not
> >> do color management.
> >
> > There was a fairly long thread about this on the xorg list about 8 months
> > ago. For most X11 video drivers xv ignores all of this stuff including
> > the video card LUTs.  You should avoid using xv if colors matter to you. 
> > The only exception may be the newer Intel drivers.
>
> Does that mean that if I install a calibration xv will not use it?  (In
> my case the images were clearly changing as I changed calibrations.)  I
> have an NVIDIA graphics card.

As I said it depends on the video drivers and who knows what happens in the 
nvidia drivers?

>
> I suppose I should work harder to find a replacement for xv.  (I've
> partly replaced it with showimg, which appears to be unmaintained, with
> the last release 3 years ago...and sometimes it crashes....and who knows
> how it handles color.)

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