Introduction to Colord
Colord is a system service that
makes it easy to manage, install, and generate color profiles. It
is used mainly by GNOME Color
Manager for system integration and use when no users are
logged in.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.2
platform.
Package Information
Additional Downloads
Colord Dependencies
Required
dbus-1.14.10, GLib-2.80.4 (GObject Introspection
recommended), Little CMS-2.16, Polkit-125, and
SQLite-3.46.1
Recommended
elogind-255.5, libgudev-238, libgusb-0.4.9,
and Vala-0.56.17
Optional
gnome-desktop-44.1 and colord-gtk-0.3.1 (to build the example
tools), DocBook-utils-0.6.14, GTK-Doc-1.34.0,
libxslt-1.1.42, SANE-1.2.1, ArgyllCMS, and
Bash Completion
Installation of Colord
First, fix a misuse of the sqlite API causing a test failure and
potential runtime crash:
patch -Np1 -i ../colord-1.4.7-upstream_fixes-1.patch
There should be a dedicated user and group to take control of the
colord daemon after it has started. Issue the following commands as
the root user:
groupadd -g 71 colord &&
useradd -c "Color Daemon Owner" -d /var/lib/colord -u 71 \
-g colord -s /bin/false colord
Install Colord by running the
following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup .. \
--prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-D daemon_user=colord \
-D vapi=true \
-D systemd=false \
-D libcolordcompat=true \
-D argyllcms_sensor=false \
-D bash_completion=false \
-D docs=false \
-D man=false &&
ninja
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
To test the results, issue: ninja
test. One test, colord-self-test-daemon, will fail if the package
is already installed. The test suite must be run with the
system-wide D-Bus Daemon running.
Command Explanations
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-D daemon_user=colord: This
switch is used so the colord daemon will run as an unprivileged
user instead of the root user.
-D vapi=true: This switch
enables building the Vala
bindings. Remove if you don't have Vala-0.56.17 installed.
-D systemd=false: This
switch disables support for systemd login in Colord applications.
-D libcolordcompat=true:
This switch enables building a compatibility library for older
packages that use Colord.
-D argyllcms_sensor=false:
This switch disables the ArgLLCMS sensor driver. Omit if you have
ArgyllCMS
installed and wish to use it.
-D bash_completion=false:
This switch disables Bash Completion support for Colord
applications.
-D docs=false: This switch
disables building of documentation. Omit if you have GTK-Doc-1.34.0 available.
-D man=false: This switch
disables building of man pages. Omit if you have DocBook-utils-0.6.14 available.
Namespaced versions of the docbook-xsl stylesheets are also
required.
Contents
Installed Programs:
cd-create-profile, cd-fix-profile,
cd-iccdump, cd-it8, and colormgr
Installed Libraries:
libcolord.so, libcolordcompat.so,
libcolordprivate.so, and libcolorhug.so
Installed Directories:
/usr/include/colord-1,
/usr/lib/colord-{plugins,sensors}, /usr/share/color{d},
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/colord, and /var/lib/colord
Short Descriptions
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cd-create-profile
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is the Color Manager Profile Creation Tool
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cd-fix-profile
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is a tool used to fix metadata in ICC profiles
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cd-iccdump
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dumps the contents of an ICC profile as human readable
text
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cd-it8
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is the Color Manager Testing Tool
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colormgr
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is a text-mode program that allows you to interact with
colord on the command line
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libcolord.so
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contains the Colord API
functions
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libcolordcompat.so
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contains legacy API functions for compatibility with
older applications
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libcolordprivate.so
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contains internal API functions for the programs included
with Colord
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libcolorhug.so
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contains a simple display hardware colorimiter
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