colord colord is a system activated daemon that maps devices to color profiles. It is used by gnome-color-manager for system integration and use when there are no users logged in. What colord does: * Provides a DBus API for system frameworks to query, e.g. "Get me the profiles for device $foo" or "Create a device and assign it profile $bar" * Provides a persistent key-file backed store that is preserved accross reboots. * Provides the session for a way to set system settings, for instance setting the display profile for all users and all sessions. See http://colord.hughsie.com/ for more details.