I use ubuntu 22.04 and I have a Spyder 3 monitor colorimeter. I’ve tried extensively to install displaycal gui to no avail. I’ve tried the python 3 version and I’m getting all sorts of errors while installing.
Instead of taking more time to troubleshoot (already wasted way too many hours), I thought I’d just get a friend with a windows laptop, plug their machine in my monitor, run the official software, and copy the color profile to my machine. I’m fine with doing that a couple times a year, no problem, I’m just a hobbyist anyway.
My question is, is this technically a correct approach? Is the color profiling specific to the monitor only, or is it affected by the OS as well?
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here is my very partial transcript if it can help :
generate calibration file for temperature 6500 at brightness 120cd/m2 (for average litten room and web/print edit) just print aim lower (100) for laptop used in bright env aim higher (130+) Gamma 2.2 (norm ?)
##Place colorimeter on the target
##Choose to account for ambian or not (not if the light in your room is subject to change)
##Check white point for temp with menu “2” and adjust with screen OSD (move OSD where it does > not interfere)
##Continue to calibration with menu “7”
##Bengin generating by first creating the target the profile -d3 ← wideo RGB (RGB display) with the same
(argyll-)targen -v -g16 -d3 ‘Display_Profile_Name’
##Profile the display (name the target the profile name you want at the end)
(argyll-)dispread -v -H -k Display_Profile_Name.cal Display_Profile_Target
##Generate the ICC color profile file
(argyll-)colprof -v -qh -as -nc Display_Profile_Target
After I fed the generated file to the display manager provided by my desktop environement
@darix That’s the project I tried to install, what I called “the python 3 version”. I did spent a lot of time, installed all recommended dependencies, built virtual environments with different versions of Python… And I was always getting some error regarding wheels. I think I gave up, at least for now, I’ll give the other options a try.
@clind Somehow it never crossed my mind going GUI-less. Thanks, I think I’m going to give it a try!
@g-man Thanks for the feedback and for answering my original question, that’s very good to know. So, since you mentioned “drivers” I take it that if I were to dual-boot Windows on the same machine, with the same hardware and all, I would still get a different profile since that would be based on different drivers. I will give Flatpak a try, I had never heard of it before so I was a bit on the cautious side. It seems that they use an old version, and I’m about to ditch my Spyder 3 (10 years old, just learnt that these things have an expiration date), so I’ll have to check if the Flatpak version is up to date with modern hardware.