Anyone ever get something like this?
I got a new monitor and I can’t install an ICC profile. The software ran fine but I have no idea what is happening here.
Hi David,
It may sound nutty, but are you on a Mac and/or have Chromecast installed?
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
Nope @Claes, that is Ubuntu.
I’d be it has something to do with wayland, are you running a wayland session? No color management/ICC support there, so far as I know. Try again in an X session and I’d be it works.
It is Wayland. That’s frustrating… Thanks, I’ll try it out.
XWayland only supports a subset of the X11 protocol, and doesn’t support the API’s needed for color management. So if you need color management, you need to switch to using a real X11 display server.
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What is a real X11 display server? I tried installing it under “Ubuntu Xorg” and “Gnome Xorg” and got the same error.
Xorg is the x11 display server. I get a similar error on my solus gnome box. It is not a box that I edit on so I haven’t persued it.
You can try loading the ICC using the colord panel in gnome preferences
Funny thing, gnome-control-center isn’t installed. It’s a long story…
I ended up installing LXDE to apply the profile.
I assume colord is installed?
So did I but it is not. Any advice on how to get it installed? I ran through a bunch of missing *sane dependencies but they are all up to date.
I posted a bug report here: Bug #1762256 “system settings not installed” : Bugs : gnome-control-center package : Ubuntu
but was told it looks like my package system is out of sync. No idea what that means.
What version of Ubuntu?
17.10
Wayland has support for Color Management since version 1.2.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM2OTQ
So it might be the other way around, that ArgyllCMS doesn’t have Wayland support 
That is for Weston only. Currently each compositor does its own thing regarding color management and there is no protocol to for example install the VCGT in the graphics card LUT and/or tell applications on which monitor they’re running. This makes wayland currently unsuitable for color managed workflow.
Not really. A particular Wayland compositor has added some limited color management support, but there’s no compositor independent Wayland API to allow calibration, profiling, install calibrations and profiles, support different displays needing different calibration and profiles, or for applications to discover and use profiles for each display. Contrast that with X11, MSWindows, OS X, all of which have a set of stable API’s that facilitate color management both for color tools and applications. MSWindows and OS X also provide system facilities for off-loading some of color management work for applications that don’t wish to do this themselves.
No Wayland support is possible, because it simply doesn’t have the API’s.
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Thanks for the details. Is there any planning going on to add an API?
Last time I checked, it appeared not. It seems the majority of active Wayland developers don’t know much about color management, nor appreciate its usefulness. (I find that ironic but not very surprising. Color is pretty fundamental to modern computer graphics, but many (most ?) practitioners don’t actually know much about it. Having trod the path of Electronics Engineer → Programmer → Computer Graphics Expert → Color Management Expert I have some understanding of the learning curve :-). Some architectural decisions made early in the development have significant color management implications, but there seems to be little awareness of this. The response when I tried to raise some awareness ranged from “what are you talking about ?” to “do color management in the compositor”, but I don’t see this as a viable approach, given that then every color tool and color sensitive application would have to deal with every significant compositors own APIs for this (if they have such APIs at all of course.)
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“You can have any color as long as it’s black”.
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