My favorite somewhat obscure X11 program is xantfarm. It still has a webpage but I don’t think that it has changed a lot since the early 90s. It only supports drawing into the root window which is not visible with my current EXWM setup so I have to run it in a Xvnc or Xephyr.
Off the top of my head I presume they’re reffering to an ICC profile, which is a file produced by a calibration procedure mapping output colors from the OS to outputs that produce the intended color accurately on your specific display (be it by model online, or for your individual unit via an at-home calibration tool).
Yep. It deals with the color accuracy of your display. One usage is to normalize to the ‘standard’ colors so my red is the same red as your red as measured by the colorimeter. After that, another usage is to simulate how an output will look, so say you were going to a printer you can get the profile of thaw printer so you can work on a project with the same colors that that printer cat produce. I don’t print stuff that often, but I do look at and reproduce designs for the web, and I have a rot more confidence discussing the design knowing we are on the same page as far as color (code monkey only copies color from a design, but it can be a collaborative process for others).
Ooh, cool! This seems to be a project my Thomas Adam, who is (still!) maintaining the FVWM window manager!
My favorite somewhat obscure X11 program is xantfarm. It still has a webpage but I don’t think that it has changed a lot since the early 90s. It only supports drawing into the root window which is not visible with my current EXWM setup so I have to run it in a Xvnc or Xephyr.
File name has 2014 in it. Maybe I should package it up for Nix. That’d be an interesting background.
Xmonad will go with it :( But until Wayland has color management, it’s not a suitable display server for my workflows.
Asking out of ignorance: what do you mean by color management?
Off the top of my head I presume they’re reffering to an ICC profile, which is a file produced by a calibration procedure mapping output colors from the OS to outputs that produce the intended color accurately on your specific display (be it by model online, or for your individual unit via an at-home calibration tool).
Yep. It deals with the color accuracy of your display. One usage is to normalize to the ‘standard’ colors so my red is the same red as your red as measured by the colorimeter. After that, another usage is to simulate how an output will look, so say you were going to a printer you can get the profile of thaw printer so you can work on a project with the same colors that that printer cat produce. I don’t print stuff that often, but I do look at and reproduce designs for the web, and I have a rot more confidence discussing the design knowing we are on the same page as far as color (code monkey only copies color from a design, but it can be a collaborative process for others).
s/thaw/that, s/cat/can, s/rot/lot