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.)