[argyllcms] Re: stupid question
- From: "Hal V. Engel" <hvengel@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:31:21 -0700
On Friday, October 22, 2010 01:03:36 pm Konstantin Svist wrote:
> On 10/22/2010 09:39 AM, Hal V. Engel wrote:
> > On Friday, October 22, 2010 02:10:58 am Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> >>> 3rd question is about the CMS-aware programs (Gimp, Cinepaint, Firefox,
> >>> etc..). If I already set the monitor profile for the system, do I need
> >>> to alter those programs' settings? Do they need to be set to sRGB or to
> >>> same monitor profile (hopefully images colors won't be changed twice
> >>> after that)?
> >>
> >> Dependent how the programs are configured at build- and runtime
> >> they might simply use the Xorg upload ICC profile. Simply look into
> >> the preferences.
> >> You might use tools like dispwin, oyranos-monitor or front ends to
> >> them for uploading the ICC profiles to Xorg. From there the ICC
> >> profiles are transparent to the applications. For multi monitor
> >> setups the situation depends largely on the applications support
> >> for this use case.
> >
> > Firefox on xorg does NOT use any xorg information, such as ICC_PROFILE,
> > to set the display profile and only uses the display profile that is set
> > in the preferences. If none is set in the preferences then it uses sRGB
> > as the display profile. There is an open bug on this in the firefox
> > bugzilla.
> >
> > Hal
>
> So should it be pointed to the monitor profile? If so, then there's a
> problem with multi-monitor setup - each monitor has its own profile.
> Then it's better to leave it on sRGB?
Yes Firefox has issues with multiple monitors since it is only possible to
configure it for one profile. Using sRgb is one option another is to always
use
firefox on one monitor and set the correct profile in it's settings.
There is also a bugzilla entry for the multi-monitor issue.
Hal
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