On 6/1/08, Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Somewhat tangentially to the colour management discussing currently > going on: My desktop spans two different monitors (laptop's internal LCD > + an external monitor). These two monitors show the same RGB values > differently. What needs to be done to have applications look the same > on either monitor? What about windows spanning both monitors? You always have the linear color correction on the video card. You can typically have two independent signals, with a correction for each. So a real clone mode would share color correction. If and how this is exposed depends on your drivers. > > Could this be an argument for the composition manager to handle > color-space conversion, at least in some cases? Figuring out which parts > of which widgets fall on which monitor might be a bit too much of a > complexity to require from the toolkits and applications. > > Or is this use-case unreasonably hard to support? I also wonder about > clone modes. > > Marius Gedminas > > -- > Those who can't write, write manuals. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIQrixkVdEXeem148RAqi5AJ4m1gNd9DRXpxLx0V2VLmfBA2QFygCfRUQ6 > 0OLQpk1SNI0GbD9+aOT9SdA= > =V6BU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg