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wout
Asked: 2018-06-12 10:05:40 +0800 CST

How to calibrate screen colour in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?

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The color on the screen of my Dell XPS 15 is rather blue-ish. The D55 (5500K) profile is too yellow and D60 is too cold.

Ideally I'd like a profile configured at 5700k, or somewhere in that zone. None of the other profiles suit my needs.

UPDATE: While I have yet to find a proper solution, I managed to tweak the color of my screen with redshift. Not an ideal solution, but it does the trick for the time being.

UPDATE 2: This can be done with the following command:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.color night-light-temperature <temperature>
color-management icc

1 Answers

  1. You can import color profile in Settings -> Devices -> Color (only for X.org sessions).

    Screenshot

    Select your display and click on Import profile button

    You can install default color profiles using sudo apt install icc-profiles or find your profile here

    Also you can calibrate your screen manually in settings (unfortunately, that button is disabled in my system and I don't know why) or using gcm-calibrate:

    $ sudo apt install gnome-settings-daemon

$ colormgr get-devices # take note of the Device ID of the one with Type: display, e.g. "xrandr-Acme Corp"

$ gcm-calibrate --device="some Device ID"

    This method requires an external display calibration hardware. The simplest way is to calibrate your screen in Windows and them export profile and apply it in your Linux system.

    For more info, I recommend to take a look at this article at Arch Wiki

    Also, AFAIK display calibration might not available in Wayland session for now.

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