Bug 47189

Summary:	Does not detect any devices
Product:	colord	Reporter:	Kurt Roeckx <kurt>
Component:	daemon	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Kurt Roeckx 2012-03-10 08:49:43 UTC

Hi,

I wanted to see what I can do with with colord.  But I'm not having much luck.

I want to start with saying that I'm not using gnome or kde, but xfce.

There seems to be a general lack of documentation on how to use this on the command line (but that's more a gnome-color-manager issue I guess).

If I run: "colormgr get-devices", I don't get anything back.

If I run "gnome-control-center color", I get:
"No devices supporting color management detected"

I of course have a real display connected, and even i1 colorimeter.

On the only box still using gnome (but probably not for long), I do get to see various things, so I'm assuming this is all related to not running gnome.

I already have a profile I created myself, so I look at what I can do with that.

If I run gcm-import on the file, it says it's already added.  Using "colormgr get-profiles" it doesn't show up.

If I use gcm-viewer it's not showing up, adding it there gives me a "Failed to copy file"/"The profile was not added in time".

The file is present in ~/.color/icc/


Kurt

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2012-03-10 09:09:04 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> I want to start with saying that I'm not using gnome or kde, but xfce.

XFCE has no session component for colord. You need to either run gnome-settings-daemon (which has a color plugin), kded with colord-kde installed, or write something lightweight for XFCE.

> If I run: "colormgr get-devices", I don't get anything back.

Right, colord only detects system devices like scanners and webcams, and then CUPS registers printers. It has no access to the session, and relies on a session component to talk to X and register devices.

> If I run gcm-import on the file, it says it's already added.  Using "colormgr
> get-profiles" it doesn't show up.

gcm-import just copies the file into the right place, it's up to the session component to open the file and create a profile with a file descriptor.

> If I use gcm-viewer it's not showing up, adding it there gives me a "Failed to
> copy file"/"The profile was not added in time".

Right, nothing did CreateProfile. Basically, you need to either run GNOME, KDE or write some code for XFCE. See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/faq.html#gcm for what somebody needs to do.

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