Ubuntu – How to calibrate screen colour in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

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The color on the screen of my Dell XPS 15 is rather blue-ish. The D55 (5500K) profile is too yellow and D60 is too cold.

Ideally I'd like a profile configured at 5700k, or somewhere in that zone. None of the other profiles suit my needs.

UPDATE:
While I have yet to find a proper solution, I managed to tweak the color of my screen with redshift. Not an ideal solution, but it does the trick for the time being.

UPDATE 2:
This can be done with the following command:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.color night-light-temperature <temperature>

Best Answer

You can import color profile in Settings -> Devices -> Color

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Select your display and click on Import profile button

You can install default color profiles using sudo apt install icc-profiles or find your profile here

Also you can calibrate your screen manually in settings (unfortunately, that button is disabled in my system and I don't know why) or using gcm-calibrate:

$ sudo apt install gnome-settings-daemon

$ colormgr get-devices # take note of the Device ID of the one with Type: display, e.g. "xrandr-Acme Corp"

$ gcm-calibrate --device="some Device ID"
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