A simple bridge between colord and X. It does the following tasks:

• Enumerates displays and register them in colord.
• Creates default ICC profiles based on EDID data.
• Applies ICC profiles provided by colord.
• Maintains user's private ICC storage directory.

The primary goal of xiccd is providing color profile support for desktop environments other than Gnome and KDE (Xfce, LXDE, and probably others) that don't support native color management yet.

It does basically the same as the gnome-settings-daemon color plugin or colord-kde but doesn't depend on any particular desktop. It doesn't even depend on GTK so it doesn't create a unnecessary GTK3 dependency if the desktop environment is GTK2-based or vice versa.

Xiccd depends only on:

• GLib
• colord
• libxrandr

And to build, the following are required:

• Autoconf
• Automake
• Make
• Git

You can install all of the above with the commands:

# For Debian, Ubuntu, and derivatives:
apt install build-essential libglib2.0-dev libcolord-dev libxrandr-dev git

# For Arch, Manjaro, and derivatives:
pacman -S base-devel glib2 colord libxrandr git

Xiccd uses Autotools to build, so if you've checked out the source code with git, you'll probably need to generate the build scripts with the following commands:

aclocal
autoconf
automake --add-missing --foreign

Once that's done, you'll be able to build and install the program with the traditional Make commands:

./configure
make
make install

which will install Xiccd into /usr/local by default. The usual conventions (PREFIX, DESTDIR, etc.) are respected.