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colord is a service (see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/intro.html) to read or load color profile data. If it is installed and started as part of a package startup to support color profile devices, but you have no such device or there is no profile to read, that is one of the kinds of messages it may log. I believe that it is non-fatal and may be ignored.
Since nothing I use loads or starts colord and I have no direct experience with it, there may be detail I have missed. IF anyone has better information I would like to read about it.
Somewhere in the last reference -- maybe the last comment -- are more detailed explanations.
Still wanting to learn what I need to do so that I don't get the error message. Clearly, Linux Mint wants end-users to use [b]colord[/d], so, how do I accomplish that?
Follow-up:
There is a command, 'colormgr', that will report devices that might use 'colord'. On my Mint 18.1 laptop, I get:
...
I agree with wpeckham, ignore it.
The juice may not be worth the squeeze.
There is one school that would move the flat to another wheel and expect/hope that it goes away. While I might not always fix the flat, I want to know what I ran over.
More specifically, I like to understand the source of error and exception messages. Armed with that understanding, I can decide to ignore or to take action based on knowledge.
Since my primary interest in color-anything is the workstation display, I need to learn how to deal with color versus xrandr.
Thanks in advance,
~~~ 0;-Dan
Last edited by SaintDanBert; 06-19-2017 at 01:06 PM.
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