Cinnamon: Colour profiles are not applied at boot

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

```

• Cinnamon version (cinnamon --version) 4.2.3
  
  
  
  • Please specify if you are using the daily builds PPA (https://launchpad.net/~linuxmint-daily-build-team/+archive/ubuntu/daily-builds). The alpha PPA
  
  
• Distribution - (Mint 17.2, Arch, Fedora 25, etc...) Mint 19.1
• Graphics hardware and driver used: Intel UHD Graphics 620 3.0 Mesa
• 32 or 64 bit: 64
• Attach /home//.xsession-errors, or /var/log/syslog
  ```

Issue

One can add colour profiles using Settings -> Colour (although it is easy to end up adding the wrong one - the UI is counter-intuitive). However, no added profile is applied on reboot. The following sources say that profiles are not applied automatically and they sketch the hackery one needs to get the profile working:

• https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/3268
• https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=149756
• https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/6r1bgw/how_do_i_get_mint_182_to_load_an_icc_profile/

Steps to reproduce

Manage to apply a colour profile, in any which way. Observe that the profile is not applied on boot.

Expected behaviour

The profile should be applied on boot.

Other information

[Ecphrasis]

Any news for this issue ? Still present in Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon. I have to activate the icc manually every reboot :(

[gilbertohasnofb]

I am also experiencing this, as reported in the Linux Mint forum here.

Both colord and csd-color are running when I start my system but the profile I use is not loaded. Running htop as soon as I boot and filtering with the keyword 'color' produces:

When I open the app Colour, the only profile available for my monitor is the ICC profile I use in my system. At this point, although the checkbox by the profile is checked, the profile is not loaded. Once I double click on it, the colours of my monitor change, meaning it got finally loaded.

At that point, running htop again and filtering for 'color' shows a new instance of csd-color:

This same colour profile ran fine in Linux Mint 18.3 before I upgraded.

[gilbertohasnofb]

Would anyone know here if it is possible to set an ICC profile using the terminal? Because if it is, a temporary fix for this would be to create a little bash script executing that command on startup,

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

@gilbertohasnofb

I find that on one of my Mint PCs I have the command xiccd running at startup and that startup command shows with this comment within the Startup Applications program: 'Applies color management profiles to your session'. It seems to work. I do not know - though perhaps I have a note on it somewhere - how I came to have that startup program.

[gilbertohasnofb]

@LinuxOnTheDesktop Thank you so much for your reply. xiccd wasn't installed by default, and after installing it I was able to get my profile to load on startup by executing xiccd -e after boot. I'm happy to have my profile on by default now, but Colour now shows two monitors instead of one (I've only got one), and also show a default profile which I am not able to delete:

Ideally, loading profiles by default shouldn't be too much of a hassle so this looks like a bug to me.