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How to disable all colour management?
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Iirc you can’t in gnome. You can create a color management profile that doesn’t do anything though but depending on what you’re trying to accomplish that might not be useful.
I’m saying the following as a literal lifelong linux user who has had to learn about color management and set it up in multiple environments: you will most likely be happier doing whatever you’re doing on a mac.
That would actually be great! I need a completely un-managed baseline to build off. How is it done?
I have too much sunk cost fallacy with this now and cannot turn back. If you have any practical tips for survival please share them!
Uhh displaycal? I think is the program. Last I looked nothing worked right in Wayland or gnome, so if either of those are in your setup it’s worth getting rid of em.
You’re not gonna like my practical tip: generate a profile on Windows or mac computer and copy the profile to the linux machine.
I don’t know what you’re actually trying to accomplish so if that’s not absolutely secret squirrel shit maybe lay it out but my other advice is the same as the first verse: use a mac instead of trying to colorimeter a linux attached display. Unless you’ve shelled out for a very good monitor, use a mac with a built in display.