[SOVED] Color profiles are applied only for a few seconds (xfce) [Solved]

[-iak-]

Hello everybody. I am using MX 23 with a fresh install since January on my laptop. The color profile on the laptop was horrible since the beginning, while on my HDMI screen it worked perfectly until today. So now I have the same problem on both screens. Please note that yesterday I updated my system:

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 rawyak@dell:~
$ nala history info 76
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  desktop-defaults-mx-xfce                                25.01.05mx23                         25.02.01mx23                                                        5 KB  
  desktop-defaults-mx-xfce-desktop                        25.01.05mx23                         25.02.01mx23                                                       15 KB  
  desktop-defaults-mx-xfce-system                         25.01.05mx23                         25.02.01mx23                                                       11 KB  
                                                                                                                                                                         
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Now: I tried to apply some color profiles plenty of times to my laptop screen. The color profile I choose will take effect only for a few seconds and then back to dark-orangeish tint. I didn't care too much because I mainly use my computer plugged to my HDMI scree, but now I'm facing the same problem also with the external screen. It doesn't matter which method I use, colors change only for a moment. I tried with the xfce graphical tool, with colormgr and by launching xiccd from terminal (which should already be running from system startup): always the same result.

colormgr displays the correct profile as set as default, as it should be:

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colormgr device-get-default-profile /org/freedesktop/ColorManager/devices/xrandr_VY279HGE_S2LMQS040248_rawyak_1000
Object Path:   /org/freedesktop/ColorManager/profiles/icc_3c6276bc2d9d1e8a126b13a73f81c179
Owner:         root
Format:        ColorSpace..
Title:         Best RGB
Qualifier:     RGB..
Type:          display-device
Colorspace:    rgb
Gamma Table:   No
System Wide:   Yes
Filename:      /usr/share/color/icc/colord/BestRGB.icc
Profile ID:    icc-3c6276bc2d9d1e8a126b13a73f81c179
Metadata:      FILE_checksum=3c6276bc2d9d1e8a126b13a73f81c179

What's the problem? What can I do?

For now I'm undoing the last update if I can, and see if I can get back to decent colors for my external screen for now, but I'd love to have full control over both screens to be honest

[j2mcgreg]

We are going to need your computer’s complete profile before we can proceed, so you need to post the output from the QSI utility. The Quick System Info (QSI) utility is located in MX Tools and its output is automatically formatted for use here in the forum. Run the QSI utility, click “Copy for Forum” at the bottom and then just paste it here in your thread.
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[-iak-]

We are going to need your computer’s complete profile before we can proceed, so you need to post the output from the QSI utility. The Quick System Info (QSI) utility is located in MX Tools and its output is automatically formatted for use here in the forum. Run the QSI utility, click “Copy for Forum” at the bottom and then just paste it here in your thread.
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I'm sorry, I completely forgot.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.12.11-2-liquorix-amd64 [6.12-14~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: audit=0
    intel_pstate=disable amd_pstate=disable BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.12.11-2-liquorix-amd64
    root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.38 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.20.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: MX-23.5_x64 Libretto Jan 12  2025 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude 5490 v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
    type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0DH2HV v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell v: 1.6.2
    date: 11/27/2018
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 30.2/68.0 Wh (44.4%) volts: 8.6 min: 7.6
    model: BYD DELL KCM828A type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: full
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-8350U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake gen: core 8 level: v3
    note: check built: 2017 process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8E (142) stepping: 0xA (10)
    microcode: 0xF6
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2150 high: 2303 min/max: 400/1901 boost: enabled scaling:
    driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: performance cores: 1: 2300 2: 2300 3: 2303 4: 2300 5: 1901 6: 1901
    7: 1901 8: 2300 bogomips: 30399
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS; IBPB: conditional; STIBP: conditional; RSB filling;
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5
    process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20 ports: active: HDMI-A-1 off: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-2
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Realtek Integrated Webcam HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:3
    chip-ID: 0bda:568c class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.20.0 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 509x286mm (20.04x11.26") s-diag: 584mm (22.99")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 pos: primary model: VY279HGE serial: <filter> built: 2024
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82 gamma: 1.2 size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 note: disabled model: BOE Display 0x0810 built: 2018 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 158
    gamma: 1.2 size: 309x173mm (12.17x6.81") diag: 354mm (13.9") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 1-9:9
    v: kernel chip-ID: 0499:1730 alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_skl class-ID: 0103
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Yamaha Steinberg UR44C type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.11-2-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.21 status: off tools: jack_control,qjackctl
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6
    chip-ID: 8086:15d7 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fd class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: wwan0 state: down mac: <filter>
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: f060
    bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:282a rev: N/A class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.54 TiB used: 34.9 GiB (2.2%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: SK Hynix model: SC311 SATA 128GB size: 119.24 GiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0P10
    scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Samsung model: MZVLQ512HALU size: 476.94 GiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 0214 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Crucial model: ATA CT1050MX size: 978.09 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: R040 scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 29.3 GiB size: 28.67 GiB (97.86%) used: 13.02 GiB (45.4%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%) used: 30.8 MiB (32.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 14.65 GiB size: 14.32 GiB (97.76%) used: 8.1 GiB (56.6%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 1.95 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda4
    maj-min: 8:4
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C pch: 42.5 C mobo: 41.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2832
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 3014 libs: 1724 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Info:
  Processes: 316 Uptime: 1h 0m wakeups: 7226 Memory: 7.62 GiB used: 3.76 GiB (49.3%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

[-iak-]

I think that one important detail is that on the lightdm login screen the colors are ok, after the login they get messed up

[CharlesV]

Several of the Dell's I have worked on had this issue, and it was fixed on several by making sure that "Use Intel Driver instead of modesetting driver..." was checked . ( MX Tweak | Other tab )

A couple off dells were fixed only by the above tweak AND changing vblank to glx. (MX Tweak | composite tab)

And one machine ( Sorry, I dont recall the model - I think it was an inspiron though.) , was only ever fixed by either changing the compositor or adding the newest linux-firmware ( this was around last october, so linux-firmware of that date.)

[CharlesV]

Also in my notes, I have to install xiccd ( mx repos )

and this link:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic. ... 7&t=311032

[-iak-]

Several of the Dell's I have worked on had this issue, and it was fixed on several by making sure that "Use Intel Driver instead of modesetting driver..." was checked . ( MX Tweak | Other tab )

A couple off dells were fixed only by the above tweak AND changing vblank to glx. (MX Tweak | composite tab)

And one machine ( Sorry, I dont recall the model - I think it was an inspiron though.) , was only ever fixed by either changing the compositor or adding the newest linux-firmware ( this was around last october, so linux-firmware of that date.)

Thank you, it's solved now

[CharlesV]

Excellent, glad to hear it is resolved.

[Stevo]

Was it xiccd?