Thanks! for posting your xicclu graph and monitor profile. Your profile xicclu graph also has the downward hook, same as the ones I’ve been making and using. I’ll have to try using DisplayCAL to see what happens. Did you specifically request the gamma 2.2 and the D65 white point and XYZ LUT profile? I think these might be the DisplayCAL default settings?
I was a bit surprised that DisplayCAL seems to make an XYZ LUT profile by default, but maybe I had requested some such awhile back. I think I’ll try deleting the DisplayCAL configuration files and see what happens.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Color_management), “Chrome supports color management by using the system-provided ICC v2 and v4 support on macOS, and from version 22 supports ICC v2 profiles by default on other platforms.”
So I installed Google Chrome (from Gentoo Portage). It does look color-managed, but the shadows are crushed compared to Firefox and Pale Moon browsers. This isn’t noticeable for most of the images on my Pictures in Progress page, but it’s very noticeable for the “Tracks at night” and “Sailboat on a lake” images. I wonder how this shadow-crushing is even possible if Chrome is using the same system-installed monitor profile as the other two browsers.
Do you know where in the Chrome settings color management can be disabled/enabled? I don’t intend to keep Chrome installed on my computer (Google is a little too pushy and invasive for my tastes), but I’m very curious about the crushed shadows.
Regarding Geeqie, for some reason Geeqie is showing the background of the image as black, even if I set it to some other color. But the list of files to the right of the image is on a white background. Sliding the divider between the list of files and the image is a bit amusing, because as the list of files is squeezed down to very narrow, the amount of shadow detail visible in the image correspondingly and very obviously increases, maximizing if the list of files is made invisible so there’s no solid white in the field of view.