XICCD(8)

📦 version 0.4.1, in arch rolling, debian bookworm, debian trixie, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 xiccd(8) — X color management daemon 💖

okay bestie, so this is xiccd, from the System Administration Utilities corner of your system, and it's genuinely such a slay little daemon. let me tell you everything. no cap, every single detail, because you deserve the full lore. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

xiccd — the X color management daemon. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xiccd [OPTION...]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so xiccd is literally just a simple bridge between colord and X. a little matchmaker. a connector. it's giving "i bring people together". 🫶

and here's the tasks it performs, bestie, in order:

  • Enumerating displays and registering them in colord;
  • Creating default ICC profiles based on EDID data;
  • Applying ICC profiles provided by colord;
  • Maintaining the user's private ICC storage directory.

now, the important part: it does not depend on any particular desktop environment nor toolkit. icon behavior honestly. BUT — and this is a real one — it should not be used in desktop environments that support color management natively, like GNOME and KDE. those two already have it handled, so let them cook. 🍓

💀 also: xiccd is usually automatically invoked by your desktop environment via /etc/xdg/autostart, so there should not be any need to invoke this binary manually. it's a "we got it from here" situation. you do not need to help. 🙈

🆘 Help Options 💬

  • -h, --help — Show help options. the classic. when in doubt, ask for help, bestie. ✨

🎀 Application Options ✨

  • -V, --version — Show version. so you can flex which version you're running. ⭐
  • -d DISPLAY, --display DISPLAY — X server to contact. like, which X server are we talking to, bestie. tell it. 📞
  • -e, --edid — Generate profiles by monitor EDID. let the monitor speak for itself, honestly iconic. 🔥

👑 AUTHORS 👑

xiccd was primarily written by Alexey Galakhov <agalakhov@gmail.com>. king behavior, we love him. 💜

This manual page was written by Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org> for the Debian project. giving credit where credit is due, periodt. 🎀

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈 this one's from March 2016, it's the xiccd page for XICCD(8) — that version and date energy, mwah. now go forth and let your daemon autostart itself like the main character it is. 💖✨🦋

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