monica
  Monica is a Monitor Calibration Tool.

An easy way to get respectable color rendetion on your screen. Especially important to get a reasonable overall gamma setting, to make sure the basic "brightness" of your screen jibes with what others see... (the Internet sRGB standard gamma of 2.2)

It uses FLTK (Fast-Light Toolkit - www.fltk.org)

There is also a "parallel" build called GAMMApage I wrote using Python/GTK, and is here.







A screenshot is below. You can use the color bars to ensure a decent color gradient. The 2.2 gamma image is part of one by Norman Koren, who has a very helpful website regarding photography (and monitor calibration) at: http://www.normankoren.com.
Get that image to look as uniform grey as possible and you should be in good shape.



Monica

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You can compile the source code. You need a running X11, have FLTK lib and, of course, a compiler. That's it. Just unpack, cd to the new directory, (no ./configure is needed) -- just run:

make

make install

monica-3.7.tar.bz2
  18K     MD5SUM: 490aabc35b830e4a3dc32a2f893ba805


If you get a compile error including cannot find -lXext then see the note on the installation page

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The Slackware-12.1 installable package if you use a Slackware-based Distro (Slack, Vector, etc.)
FLTK-1.1.7 required

monica-3.7-i486-1AL.tgz
  25K     MD5SUM: 09d06f111ff31897e05d32431ae8592d

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For Suse users, Guru's RPM Site has Monica-3.3 compiled for several releases.


Older Binaries

Decompress, drop monica in your path and run it...
As you can see they were compiled with different versions of GCC.
The 3.2.3 version should run on systems like Slack 9.1/Vector 4, etc.

monica-3.4_gcc-3.3.5.tar.bz2

monica-2.4_gcc-3.2.3.tar.gz   MD5SUM: 49407dd0da5afc7f46c5da6e4a0c230f