Loading ICC profile under wayland/swaywm

almindor · 2024-01-24 03:17:07

I'm trying to load the ICC profile for my laptop according to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ICC_profiles#Wayland but `colormgr get-devices` returns empty. Is there another way to do this, or do I have to do something for colord to get the device populated? I'm using swaywm without any session management (e.g. launched from tty directly).

Trilby · 2024-01-24 03:58:26

That is a very poorly written wiki page (or section at least), unfortunately. I don't really know much about ICC profiles, but I can spot lots of oddities in that page. Most relevant for this thread is that there is no "wayland" approach to this as wayland is not a running bit of software and color management is not part of the protocol. The compositor needs to handle (part of) this. Both Gnome and KDE have each implemented their own distinct way of handling color management. I don't believe sway* has yet, but it is an open issue being tracked and there is some level of work being done on it.

*note you use sway, not swaywm. Sway is not a WM. You do not use a WM.

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Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-01-24 07:09:13

ICC profiles are not (yet) supported under sway: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1486

You could try a modified version of sway & wl-roots, as linked here. Otherwise try GNOME or Plasma for ICC support under Wayland.

almindor · 2024-01-24 17:28:46

Trilby wrote:

*note you use sway, not swaywm. Sway is not a WM. You do not use a WM.

Well then Sway calls itself wrong, see https://swaywm.org/ with

Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11

.

I'm pretty sure it manages my windows alright.

almindor · 2024-01-24 17:29:23

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

ICC profiles are not (yet) supported under sway: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1486
You could try a modified version of sway & wl-roots, as linked here. Otherwise try GNOME or Plasma for ICC support under Wayland.

Thanks, this is highly depressing. 4 years and no progress because people don't agree on a simple ICC protocol

Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-01-24 20:50:18

Well it is a rather niche requirement and not really needed for most users. Seems like something more suited to a heavyweight DE rather than something minimal like sway.

And I've just realised my post repeated what Trilby said so apologies to Trilby for that.

othersamo_ · 2024-06-13 18:17:12

Hi, ik that I am a buit late but I have exactly the same issue with kde. Trying to get profiles but the result is empty.

Trilby · 2024-06-13 18:24:34

No you do not have exactly the same issue as you are using a completely different display server / compositor. There is currently no way to use ICC profiles in sway, but there certainly is in KDE and it's right in the wiki page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Co … C_profiles
or if needed to get it started:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ICC_profiles#Wayland

Last edited by Trilby (2024-06-13 18:27:15)

othersamo_ · 2024-06-14 01:55:21

Well, I tried both of those methods and none works because

colormgr get-devices

results in empty output and hence no profile can be assigned.

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