Display colorsync profile remains unapplied?

[Christopher Hunt]

Thanks for your feedback - can I ask how you verify that the second  
monitor retains its setting? I do not see this myself from just  
having observed the monitor.

Cheers,
-C

On 29/03/2007, at 6:00 AM, Roland Torres wrote:

> On Mar 28, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
>> On Mar 28, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Roland Torres wrote:
>>
>>> Christopher,
>>>
>>> I think you may be in luck, as far as a quick 'n' dirty  
>>> workaround goes. First, run the two displays independently (not  
>>> in mirrored mode), and set each of them individually to have the  
>>> profile you want (say, the Sanyo XP50/55 profile). Then, switch  
>>> to mirrored mode. You will notice that the second monitor retains  
>>> the last color profile selected for it. At least, this works for  
>>> me (10.4.9), so it will likely hold true for you (10.4.8) as well.
>>
>> I think to confirm, I'd create an Applescript (or other small app)  
>> to ask the OS to return the display profile for both displays to  
>> be sure this works. It's possible that switching to mirror mode  
>> doesn't cause the display manager to update the 2nd display with  
>> the vcgt tag that's being used for the 1st display, but is in fact  
>> still using the 1st display's profile, which might give the  
>> appearance thatchoosing mirroring after independently setting  
>> profiles unmirrored, works.
>
> If I select different profiles for each monitor, and then turn on  
> mirroring, the second monitor retains its setting.
>
> Roland