Am Do, 22 Dez 2011 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Benjamin B wrote: > >> GIMP has a checkbox in Preferences to read display profile from > >> the atom in X. Did you enable it? > > > > Thanks Alexandre. Gotta say I found references to the concept but > > not enough to understand it. I haven't configured anything in X. > > Didn't find that kind of checkbox in GIMP either -- has that been > > introduced after 2.6.8? > > In was introduced in 2.4 along owth other color management options. > It's right below "Display profile" combo box oin the Color Management > section of the Prefences dialog. > > There are different ways to assign a color profile to X, from console > tools like xicc to GNOME Color Manager and KDE's Oyranos based > configuration applet. > > Alexandre Prokoudine OK I've got "Monitor profile" and below "Try to use the system monitor profile". Screen shot of the prefs dialog: http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/4378/gimpprefs.png So I enabled that and it doesn't make a difference. But then a whole lot of things don't make a difference :( Cheers, Benjamin.