KGamma

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Description:

KGamma is a KDE Control Center modul for gamma calibration/correction of XFree86. With proper gamma settings, your display (websites, images, etc.) will look the same on your monitor as on other monitors.
The gamma settings can be adjusted either as a single value or separately for the red, green and blue components. In addition, KGamma enables you to calibrate/correct your monitor's contrast and brightness settings. A sequence of test pictures helps you hone in on the optimal settings.
Note that the adjustments are for your monitor, not particular images.

KGamma is able to save settings on a system-wide (you need root access for that) and/or a per-user basis. The user settings replace the system settings at KDE startup.

Multi-head configurations are supported.

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KGamma is now part of the KDE project. There are no longer separate releases. If you want to use it with KDE 3.2, please install the kdegraphics KDE package. Older versions of KGamma should be uninstalled before. Bugs of the recent version should only be reported to the KDE Bug Tracking System.

KDE 3.1.x Version
	kgamma-1.0.1.tar.bz2 Sourcecode, Size 397 KB

Documentation:

FAQ:

Question: KGamma compiles, installs and works fine, but does not make the alterations on the display.
Answer: A graphics card and a XFree driver supporting that feature are required. For example, framebuffer will not work.

Question: KGamma compiles and installs without problems, but I can't find a KGamma entry in KControl.
Answer: KGamma is not installed in the right path. You have to find out your KDE path and reinstall like that:
  ./configure --prefix="Your KDE path"
  make
  make install
For example, in Mandrake 9.0 and RedHat 8.0 the KDE path is "/usr", in SuSE 8.1 it's "/opt/kde3".
If this not work: Some distributions use a special (non KDE standard) directory to for the "kgamma.desktop" file. You need to move that file to this location. For example, in Mandrake it's "/usr/share/applnk-mdk/Configuration/KDE/LookNFeel/kgamma.desktop".

ChangeLog:

KGamma 1.0.2:

• Integration into KDE 3.2
• Move it to KContol section "Peripherals"
• Integration into KControl module "Display"

KGamma 1.0.1:

• Fix kgamma crashing with XF86Config including empty lines

KGamma 1.0.0:

• Fix bug creating empty *.tmp files
• Add Swedish GUI translation (by Karolina Lindqvist)

KGamma 0.9.9:

• Add multi-head support
• Add screen selector
• Add screen synchronisation
• Change kgammarc format (old user settings are lost)
• Fix a localisation bug in class GammaCtrl
• Build system update
• Add class XF86ConfigPath
• Add Dutch translation (by Rinse de Vries)
• Add Czech translation (by Daniel Prynych)

KGamma 0.9.2:

• Fix compile errors with configure option --enable-final (again)
• Cancel the split into two parts (admin and user mode), add a checkbox to choose where to store the settings (user config file or XF86Config)

KGamma 0.9.1:

• Fix compile errors with configure option --enable-final
• French (partially) and spanish translation update
• Install script update

KGamma 0.9:

• Add admin mode (in this mode, gamma settings are stored to XF86Config)
• Add spec file for RPM based distributions (Dominik Seichter)
• Remove class RGBCtrl, handle the widgets in main widget
• Add check for XFree86-VidModeExtension to configure.in.in
• Add wrapper class XVidExtWrap to access XFree86-VidModeExtension directly, KGamma no longer needs xgamma as a backend

KGamma 0.2.3:

• Minor install script changes, should compile with KDE2 and KDE3 now

KGamma 0.2.2:

• Ported to KDE 3

KGamma 0.2.1:

• Code clean up
• Converted all strings to QString to avoid copying between QString and char*
• Add french localisation (Pierre Jarillon)
• Add italian localization (Daniele Medri)

KGamma 0.2:

• Add spanish translation (Miguel Novas)
• Change behavior of "Use Defaults" button to be compliant with kcontrol standard
• Partial rewrite to make it a KDE Control Center module
• Create new logo