[argyllcms] Using Argyll on remote displays and screensavers

Hi.

Still works great, but I just noticed one thing that you might want to
do something about.

I am adjusting a remote display on Unix (DISPLAY=hostname:0.1
./dispcal ...) and that seems to work fine except for one item: the
X11 extension to turn the screensaver off (MIT-SCREEN-SAVER) cannot be
used on the remote display and the resulting X11 error makes dispcal
exit with the default X11 error handler before the main menu comes up.

I '#if 0'ed the screensaver sections out of dispcal and that seems to
make the remote situation work as advertised (not finished yet).

I suggest a commandline option or environment variable that makes
dispcal not try to mess with the screensaver.  Alternatively, these
code sections could be run with X11 errors being ignored (I like the
option solution better, though).

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Another random question: does anybody have color profiles that I could
load to deliberately create "screwed up" displays like the typical web
user might have, like "cheap notebook in subway station"? In the
simplest case that would be just loading the inverse of an ICC file
that has been gathered on such a "screwed up" display.  But maybe
there is an even more sophisticated method such as a small library of
ICC files from bad displays and a program to merge the inverse of that
with the ICC file I use to adjust my display normally?

Is anybody using "bad display emulation" for their graphics work?

Thanks again
Martin
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