Color profile management of monitors in MATE 18.04

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There is a big hole in MATE! Can you guess? Color management is in Ubuntu, why not in Ubuntu MATE? It is a wonderful thing to see your display manage colors correctly. You don’t know what your missing until you can actually see the corrected color profile applied and your photos look great! So, what is the status of color management support and does this need some impetus? Getting this into 18.04 would be a real coup in my opinion and make MATE equal to the regular Ubuntu LTS in major features. I’ve hacked around it with I think it was Argyll. But, we need it builtin.
Dow Hurst

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You want to install dispcalgui. It’s wonderful :slight_smile: I’ll add that to the Software Boutique soon.

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Your post certainly caught my eye when you said it was wonderful. So I looked it up, and I'm impressed with what I read. Will be taking it for a test drive when time permits. Thank you @Wimpy :slight_smile:

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Thank you! I’ll try it.

Best wishes,
Dow

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dispcalgui is pretty! I have a ColorHug, so I tried it.

Calibration works great.

It won’t install the profiles for either of my two external monitors ("colord: Querying for profile ‘ixx-blahblah’ returned no result for 20 seconds’) but works fine installing the profile for my internal panel.

I never knew color management was so complicated.

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DisplayCAL is now in the Boutique for 18.04 :slight_smile:

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Thanks for that!
Dow

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So is DisplayCAL again off the Boutique? (I cannot find it in 22.04)

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Could it be that it's a resource hog?

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How do you correctly color manage Ubuntu MATE ? It's crucial for consistent photo editing.

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From what I can see, the DisplayCal application development appears to be frozen. Since this seemed to be Martin's recommended App for that context, is there now a designated substitute to fulfill that function?

I see current references to "ColorHug" on launchpad,

but a search for "DisplayCal" doesn't locate anything. :frowning:

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Would this help ?

argyll/noble 3.1.0+repack-1build4 amd64
  Color Management System, calibrator and profiler

argyll-doc/noble,noble 3.1.0+repack-1build4 all
  Color Management System, calibrator and profiler (documentation)

argyll-ref/noble,noble 3.1.0+repack-1build4 all
  Color Management System, calibrator and profiler (data files)

colord-sensor-argyll/noble 1.4.7-1build2 amd64
  system service to manage device colour profiles -- argyll sensor plugin

colorhug-client/noble 0.2.8-3build4 amd64
  Tools for the Hughski Colorimeter

displaycal/noble-updates 3.9.11-2ubuntu0.24.04.1 amd64
  Graphical user interface for the Argyll CMS.

These are all in the standard repository.

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Thank you, Thom.

  • colord-sensor-argyll
  • displaycal

Those are not available from the repo for UM 22.04.5 LTS. :frowning:

I installed the others yesterday.

Just some observations/expectations ...

  • none of those tool are offered when you open the Control Centre

  • none of those tools are listed under Preferences, which is one of the Brisk Menu topics I would expect them under

  • none of those tools are listed under Graphics, which is another of the Brisk Menu topics I would expect them under

  • none of those tools are listed under Accessories, which is the final Brisk Menu topic I would expect them under

:frowning:

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