[Openicc] Print Color Pipeline
Robert Krawitz
rlk at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jan 24 04:22:54 PST 2011
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:49:27 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 22 January 2011 17:03, Jan-Peter Homann <homann at colormanagement.de> wrote:
>> But lets come back to the color architecture.
>> The monitor profile itself will be configured on systemlevel (Oraynos, Gnome
>> ColorManager etc...).
>
> The monitor profile is actually per-session, as the X11 instance is
> not usable from the system layer. That said, a display configuration
> will typically per-system in reality, as we don't really want to
> switch display colorspaces when we do fast-user-switching, or back and
> forth to gdm and that kind of thing.
The monitor can change over the course of a session. For example, at
home I might have my laptop plugged into one monitor, when I'm on the
train to work I use the LCD, and when I get to work I plug it into a
monitor there -- in each case, without logging out.
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