Does colour manager automatically modify the display

[Aravindh M]

Hi,

This is my first post to a linux/gnome related mailing list.

I am new to the concept of colour management and colour models and still do
not understand it. I tried reading about CIE1931 and tongue diagram but
could not understand most of the wiki page. I am a computer science student
and this is my first encounter with colour management.

I have written openGL code (using freeglut library) to display coloured
squares with RGB values (159, 0, 0), (147, 147, 0), (0, 0, 255), (0, 129,
129)  {Using glColor function}. I have set colour manager to default
settings.

Does this make the actual displayed colour independent of the monitor? Is
the gnome colour manager influencing the actual displayed colour? If yes,
what transformation does it do in default settings.

I do not plan to print or do anything else with the colours. I just want to
render them.

System specifications:
Dell Optiplex 330 with LCD monitor
running fedora 13.

Please help.
Regards,
M. Aravindh
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