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<title>Display profile locations</title>
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<h2>Where display profiles are stored, and how to load them
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Installing a display profile for your monitor is very operating system
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dependent, which is why <a href="dispwin.html#I">dispin -I</a> is a
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good way of taking care of all these details. On some systems it is not
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the operating system itself that
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supports display profiles, but individual applications, or helper
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Please choose from the detailed instructions below that suite your
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="#MSW">Microsoft
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<a href="#OSX">Apple OS X</a><br>
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<a href="#Linux">Linux/UNIX X11</a></span><br>
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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><a name="MSW"></a>On <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Microsoft Windows</span>, display
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profiles are typically in one of the
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following directories:<br>
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<p> MS Windows Me and 98: C:\Windows\System\Color<br>
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<p> MS Windows NT:
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C:\Winnt\system32\spool\drivers\color
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<p> MS Window 2000, XP and Vista:
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C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\color</p>
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<p>An alternative to using <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin -I</span>
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to install your display profiles,
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Property dialog, advanced settings, Color management tab, and locate
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the profile and install it there. This in
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itself does not cause the profile to be made use of anywhere in your
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<p>If you are using Adobe Photoshop on your system, then you can tell
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it to use your monitor profile by editing the appropriate registry key,
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Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Color\Monitor\Monitor0", to
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contain the name of the display profile, and then restart Photoshop
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This is the simplest way of ensuring that the Adobe calibration loader
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tool Adobe Gamma loads the video hardware lookup tables from the
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uses the profile as its display profile.<br>
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<p>The adobe gamma tool can be told to use your profile, but the
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procedure is slightly tricky: Open adobe gamma from photoshop (in the
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Help->Color Management... menu item), select "Open Adobe Gamma", and
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select the "Load.." button. Select your profile and "Open". Select "OK"
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in the Adobe Gamma, it will then ask you to save it's modified version
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of your profile under a different name. Chose a name for the modified
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profile, and save it. Exit from Photoshop. Copy the profile you want to
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use, over the modified profile that you saved in Adobe Gamma. (If you
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don't do the last step, the profile Photoshop will be using will have
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been modified in strange ways from what you intended.)<br>
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<p>Installing a profile on Microsoft Windows generally doesn't mean
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that the profiles calibration will be automatically loaded into a
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display on startup. A separated tool is usually needed to achiev
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<p>Some Microsoft Windows applications may come with
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"Gamma/VCGT/RAMDAC/Video LUT"
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loader tools, consult their documentation and check your Start Menu
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Startup folders. If you don't want to use any of these 3rd party
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tools, you can also use the <a
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href="file:///D:/src/argyll/doc/dispwin.html">dispwin</a>
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tool to do this for you, as it takes either a <a
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href="file:///D:/src/argyll/doc/cal_format.html">.cal</a> or ICC file
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as an argument. The <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/xcalib/">xcalib</a>
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tool could also be used.<br>
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<p>To add a startup item that will load a profiles calibration into the
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display using <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin</span>, use the
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;">On the task bar, right click and select
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"Properties", then select the "Advanced" tab, then click "Add..". then
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browse till you locate dispwin.exe. In the box containing the path to
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin.exe</span>, add a space then
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the option <span style="font-weight: bold;">-L</span>, eg:<br>
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;"> <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">c:\bin\argyll\dispwin -L</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;">If you don't want to use the default
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installed profile, you could explicitly set the calibration file to use
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;"> <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">c:\bin\argyll\dispwin
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c:\myprofiles\mydisplay.icm<br>
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;">Click "Next >", select the "Startup"
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folder, then name the item (ie.
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"Argyll Calibration Loader"), then press "Finish".<br>
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You can test it out by simply navigating the "Start" menu to the
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"Startup" folder and selecting the item you've just created. If you
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want to alter any of the details, navigate to the item again and right
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click it, and select "Properties". More than one startup item can be
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created to set the calibration for more than one display. You may want
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to cut and paste the "Target" line to a normal Command Prompt shell to
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check that it works as expected, as it is impossible to catch error
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messages in the startup.<br>
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Microsoft Windows <span style="font-weight: bold;">XP</span> has an
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optional <span style="font-weight: bold;">Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP</span>
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Microsoft, which handles installation and registering of the a display
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profile, and will also automatically set the display calibration on
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system startup. The applet is started from the control panel, and first
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you have to "Install..." the profile in the <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Profiles</span> tab, then associate it with
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the display in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Devices</span>
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tab, but <span style="font-weight: bold;">NOTE</span> that it seems to
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have a <span style="font-weight: bold;">bug</span>, in that it
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sometimes associates the profiles with the <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">wrong monitor</span> entry!<br>
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Microsoft <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vista</span> you can set
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the display profile in
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Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound
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-> Color Management, as an alternative to <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin -I</span>. In Devices
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<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
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http-equiv="content-type">
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<title>Display profile locations</title>
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<h2>Where display profiles are stored, and how to load them
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Installing a display profile for your monitor is very operating
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dependent, which is why <a href="dispwin.html#I">dispin -I</a> is a
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good way of taking care of all these details. On some systems it is
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the operating system itself that
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supports display profiles, but individual applications, or helper
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Please choose from the detailed instructions below that suite your
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="#MSW">Microsoft
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<a href="#OSX">Apple OS X</a><br>
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<a href="#Linux">Linux/UNIX X11</a></span><br>
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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><a name="MSW"></a>On <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Microsoft Windows</span>, display
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profiles are typically in one of the
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following directories:<br>
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<p> MS Windows Me and 98: C:\Windows\System\Color<br>
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<p> MS Windows NT:
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C:\Winnt\system32\spool\drivers\color
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<p> MS Window 2000, XP, Vista and 7:
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C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\color</p>
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<p>An alternative to using <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin
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to install your display profiles,
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Property dialog, advanced settings, Color management tab, and
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the profile and install it there. This in
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itself does not cause the profile to be made use of anywhere in
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<p>If you are using Adobe Photoshop on your system, then you can
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it to use your monitor profile by editing the appropriate registry
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Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Color\Monitor\Monitor0",
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contain the name of the display profile, and then restart
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This is the simplest way of ensuring that the Adobe calibration
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tool Adobe Gamma loads the video hardware lookup tables from the
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uses the profile as its display profile.<br>
67
<p>The adobe gamma tool can be told to use your profile, but the
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procedure is slightly tricky: Open adobe gamma from photoshop (in
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Help->Color Management... menu item), select "Open Adobe
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select the "Load.." button. Select your profile and "Open". Select
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in the Adobe Gamma, it will then ask you to save it's modified
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of your profile under a different name. Chose a name for the
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profile, and save it. Exit from Photoshop. Copy the profile you
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use, over the modified profile that you saved in Adobe Gamma. (If
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don't do the last step, the profile Photoshop will be using will
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been modified in strange ways from what you intended.)<br>
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<p>Installing a profile on Microsoft Windows generally doesn't mean
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that the profiles calibration will be automatically loaded into a
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display on startup. A separated tool is usually needed to achiev
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<p>Some Microsoft Windows applications may come with
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"Gamma/VCGT/RAMDAC/Video LUT"
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loader tools, consult their documentation and check your Start
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Startup folders. If you don't want to use any of these 3rd party
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tools, you can also use the <a
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href="file:///D:/src/argyll/doc/dispwin.html">dispwin</a>
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tool to do this for you, as it takes either a <a
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href="file:///D:/src/argyll/doc/cal_format.html">.cal</a> or ICC
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as an argument. The <a
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href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/xcalib/">xcalib</a>
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tool could also be used.<br>
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<p>To add a startup item that will load a profiles calibration into
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display using <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin</span>,
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;">On the task bar, right click and
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"Properties", then select the "Advanced" tab, then click "Add..".
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browse till you locate dispwin.exe. In the box containing the path
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin.exe</span>, add a space
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the option <span style="font-weight: bold;">-L</span>, eg:<br>
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;"> <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">c:\bin\argyll\dispwin -L</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;">If you don't want to use the default
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installed profile, you could explicitly set the calibration file
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;"> <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">c:\bin\argyll\dispwin
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c:\myprofiles\mydisplay.icm<br>
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;">Click "Next >", select the
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folder, then name the item (ie.
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"Argyll Calibration Loader"), then press "Finish".<br>
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You can test it out by simply navigating the "Start" menu to the
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"Startup" folder and selecting the item you've just created. If
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want to alter any of the details, navigate to the item again and
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click it, and select "Properties". More than one startup item can
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created to set the calibration for more than one display. You may
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to cut and paste the "Target" line to a normal Command Prompt
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check that it works as expected, as it is impossible to catch
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messages in the startup.<br>
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Microsoft Windows <span style="font-weight: bold;">XP</span> has an
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optional <span style="font-weight: bold;">Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP</span>
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Microsoft, which handles installation and registering of the a
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profile, and will also automatically set the display calibration on
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system startup. The applet is started from the control panel, and
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you have to "Install..." the profile in the <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Profiles</span> tab, then associate it
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the display in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Devices</span>
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tab, but <span style="font-weight: bold;">NOTE</span> that it seems
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have a <span style="font-weight: bold;">bug</span>, in that it
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sometimes associates the profiles with the <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">wrong monitor</span> entry!<br>
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Microsoft <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vista</span> you can set
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the display profile in
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Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound
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-> Color Management, as an alternative to <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin -I</span>. In Devices
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you select "Use my settings for this
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device", and then add the profile you've created.
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Unfortunately though, it doesn't use the 'vcgt'
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calibration curves on system startup, so a tool such as <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin</span> will still have to be used
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to do this. Note that currently Vista also has a <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">bug</span> that causes the calibration
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curves to be reset whenever the User Account Dialog (and similar) is
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displayed. This problem can only be worked around manually, by
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re-running the startup item whenever this happens. Note that due to the
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details of this bug it is necessary to actually reset the calibration
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to something else before re-setting it. This can be done quite
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conveniently in dispwin by adding the <span style="font-weight: bold;">-c</span>
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flag: e.g.: <span style="font-weight: bold;">c:\bin\argyll\dispwin -c
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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><a name="OSX"></a>On <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Apple OSX</span>, the display
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profile are in one of the following
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/Network/Library/ColorSync/Profiles<br>
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/System/Library/Colorsync/Profiles<br>
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/Library/ColorSync/Profiles<br>
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~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles<br>
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Note though that /System/Library/Colorsync/Profiles is only for
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profiles supplied by Apple. You can use <a href="dispwin.html#S">dispwin
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-S</a> to select the appropriate scope when installing a profile
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using <a href="dispwin.html#I">dispwin -I</a>. You can use the "System
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Preferences->Displays->Color" tool to check that the profile
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has been installed correctly. Note that the contents of
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the description tag (the argument to the <span
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style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">-D</span></span>
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flag used with the <span style="font-weight: bold;">colprof</span>
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tool) will be used to identify the profile.<br>
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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><a name="Linux"></a>On <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Linux</span> and other <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Unix</span> style systems, there is no
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universally agreed location for ICC profiles yet,
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although the following locations have been suggested at various times:<br>
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/usr/share/color/icc<br>
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/usr/local/share/color/icc<br>
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~/.color/icc<br>
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although particular applications may use their own locations, such as:<br>
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/usr/local/share/Scribus/profiles<br>
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Argyll <a href="dispwin.html">dispwin</a> follows uses the <a
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href="ucmm.html">ucmm</a> scheme for storing user and system display
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profiles, and when a display is set to use a profile correctly, it will
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href="http://www.burtonini.com/computing/x-icc-profiles-spec-0.2.html">this
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convention</a> to make it available to applications.<br>
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If you want the display calibration to be loaded, you should consider
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installing a tool to do so at startup, such as <a
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href="file:///D:/src/argyll/doc/dispwin.html">dispwin</a>
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or <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/xcalib/">xcalib</a>.<br>
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Using <a href="dispwin.html">dispwin</a> the currently installed
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profile for a particular display can be loaded using the <a
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href="dispwin.html#L">-L</a> option of <a href="dispwin.html">dispwin:</a><br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin -L</span><span
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style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br>
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</span>which will both upload the installed profile <span
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style="font-style: italic;"></span>into the <span
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style="font-weight: bold;"></span>root
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window _ICC_PROFILE property, and also load it into the display
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You can use the <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin</span> <a
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href="file:///D:/src/argyll/doc/dispwin.html#d">-d</a> parameter in
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the usual way to select other
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displays to store or load the calibration using the _ICC_PROFILE
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To do this when you start your X11 server, you could put the above
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command in your <span style="font-weight: bold;">.xinitrc</span> file
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in your home directory for each screen.<br>
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though, it doesn't use the 'vcgt'
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calibration curves on system startup, so a tool such as <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin</span> will still have to be
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to do this. Note that currently Vista also has a <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">bug</span> that causes the calibration
186
curves to be reset whenever the User Account Dialog (and similar) is
187
displayed. This problem can only be worked around manually, by
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re-running the startup item whenever this happens. Note that due to
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details of this bug it is necessary to actually reset the
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to something else before re-setting it. This can be done quite
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conveniently in dispwin by adding the <span style="font-weight:
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flag: e.g.: <span style="font-weight: bold;">c:\bin\argyll\dispwin
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Microsoft <span style="font-weight: bold;">Windows 7</span> you can
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the display profile by opening the <span class="phrase">Color
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Management control by clicking the <span class="ui">Start</span>
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button and then clicking <span class="ui">Control Panel</span>.
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In the search box, type <span class="userInput">color management</span>,
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and then click <span class="ui">Color Management</span>.</span>
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Make sure the correct display device is selected in "Device:", and
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then tick the "Use my settings for this device" box. Select "Add..."
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and then "Browse..." to locate and load the profile. (Alternately
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you can use the normal file browser to locate the profile, and then
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right click on it and select "Install Profile". In the Color Manager
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"Add..." dialog you can then select it.). Make sure that the new
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profile has been marked "(default)" if you want it to be
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automatically used for your display.<br>
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By default Windows 7 seems to automatically load the default display
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profiles calibration on startup, but needs to be told to do this at
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all other times by changing the system defaults, or if some 3rd
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party tool to load display calibration has been installed. This can
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be done by logging on with a user account that has administrative
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privileges, then opening the <span class="phrase">Color Management
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(see above), and then select the "</span><span class="ui">Advanced</span>"
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tab, and then "<span class="ui">Change system defaults...", then
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select the </span><span class="phrase">"</span><span class="ui">Advanced</span>"
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tab, and select/un-select the "<span class="ui">Use <span
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class="notLocalizable">Windows</span> display calibration</span>"
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check box. (You could use <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin
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-I</span> as an alternative to this if you really wanted.)<br>
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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><a name="OSX"></a>On <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Apple OSX</span>, the display
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profile are in one of the following
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/Network/Library/ColorSync/Profiles<br>
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/System/Library/Colorsync/Profiles<br>
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/Library/ColorSync/Profiles<br>
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~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles<br>
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Note though that /System/Library/Colorsync/Profiles is only
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profiles supplied by Apple. You can use <a href="dispwin.html#S">dispwin
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-S</a> to select the appropriate scope when installing a
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using <a href="dispwin.html#I">dispwin -I</a>. You can use the
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Preferences->Displays->Color" tool to check that the profile
249
has been installed correctly. Note that the contents of
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the description tag (the argument to the <span style="font-weight:
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bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">-D</span></span>
252
flag used with the <span style="font-weight: bold;">colprof</span>
253
tool) will be used to identify the profile.<br>
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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><a name="Linux"></a>On <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Linux</span> and other <span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Unix</span> style systems, there is no
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universally agreed location for ICC profiles yet,
259
although the following locations have been suggested at various
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/usr/share/color/icc<br>
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/usr/local/share/color/icc<br>
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~/.color/icc<br>
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although particular applications may use their own locations, such
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/usr/local/share/Scribus/profiles<br>
271
Argyll <a href="dispwin.html">dispwin</a> follows uses the <a
272
href="ucmm.html">ucmm</a> scheme for storing user and system
274
profiles, and when a display is set to use a profile correctly, it
277
href="http://www.burtonini.com/computing/x-icc-profiles-spec-0.2.html">this
278
convention</a> to make it available to applications.<br>
280
If you want the display calibration to be loaded, you should
282
installing a tool to do so at startup, such as <a
283
href="file:///D:/src/argyll/doc/dispwin.html">dispwin</a>
284
or <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/xcalib/">xcalib</a>.<br>
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Using <a href="dispwin.html">dispwin</a> the currently installed
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profile for a particular display can be loaded using the <a
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href="dispwin.html#L">-L</a> option of <a href="dispwin.html">dispwin:</a><br>
290
<span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin -L</span><span
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style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br>
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</span>which will both upload the installed profile <span
294
style="font-style: italic;"></span>into the <span
295
style="font-weight: bold;"></span>root
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window _ICC_PROFILE property, and also load it into the display
299
You can use the <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin</span> <a
300
href="file:///D:/src/argyll/doc/dispwin.html#d">-d</a> parameter
302
the usual way to select other
303
displays to store or load the calibration using the _ICC_PROFILE
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To do this when you start your X11 server, you could put the above
307
command in your <span style="font-weight: bold;">.xinitrc</span>
309
in your home directory for each screen.<br>
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