repeated quite frequently and accompanied by flashes on the screen… I"ve been getting it since the “upgrade” to Plasma6.
The .icc in question is the result of a monitor calibration using DisplayCAL and ArgyllCMS.
We are told by the powers that be that we can have colour management in Xorg, but it appears not to be the case…
No idea what DisplayCAL and ArgylCMS are.
Xorg? That is betting on the wrong horse. Wayland is the future.
What happens if you create a new user and login as that user?
Furthermore: I cannot believe that what you show is the “full output” of journalctl . Always show the command invoked.
@knurpht Wayland will be the future when there is proper colour management !
As far as the “command evoked” I did journalctl -r immediately after one of the screen flashes and abstracted the evidence…
I did have a look at Wayland and confirmed what the the graphics “tribe” who are resisting Wayland are objecting to. The colour management is rudimentary at the moment - the api is new and was conceived without input from the people that know about it - the suspicion (and the layout of the dialogue in settings would seem to confirm it) is that its origins lie in wanting to give gamers the capacity to use their HDR screens, rather than any notion of colour-managed workflow. The latter term means that if I process an image in Rawtherapee and open it in Krita, the colours will be the same and (with a bit of fiddling) because modern printer drivers have their calibration in the driver if you print something, the result looks like what you have on the screen.
The other gripe is that, in wayland, applications do not remember size or position. If you have a big high dpi monitor (and mine is not the largest by any means) you can organise your workspace and have several apps open in different parts of the desktop. In Xorg the position and size of each app’s window is remembered - so by starting the apps you need they will position themselves as before and you’re ready to go. In wayland you have to faf around before you can do anything and, for a pro who has to turn around a commission quickly, this is time wasted.
The solution (at least to me) is on closing an app it returns two tiny bits of data : P, position, in pixels, of the top left corner of the window in relation to the top left of the monitor; and D, dimensions, in pixels, of height and width of the window. You’ve been able to do that with Javascript for years…
Anyway I’m no closer to knowing what that snippet means.