Hi Peter, Ben's first response about the root-level /Library/Profiles is a key part of doing what you want. The other part is using the default user template of OSX to push the display preference to every user who logs into a given machine. You can set this up as a root user on each machine or use OSX Server to manage workstation prefs in a more centralized way. There have been some very detailed posts about this in the past by myself and others. As I'm home spending time with my fam can't go through it all again, but I bet a search of the archive will yield all the details you need plus some other approaches to your problem. Let us know how it turns out. On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Ben Goren <ben@trumpetpower.com> wrote:
On Jun 1, 2014, at 9:31 AM, Peter Constable <peter@imagoimaging.com> wrote:
Thanks, Ben.
I'm trying to do this in a way that does not involve any end-user interaction to set the profile. I know it is quite easy for the user to go into the Display Preference and select the profile but you would be surprised how many will not do this, for whatever reason. :)
It's progress, though. Once it's set that first time and the profile name stays the same, there's no more end-user effort required.
Well, if you're looking to save them even the trouble of the one-time-only selection of the profile...the "right" solution is to fire the ones who can't or won't for gross incompetence or insubordination; the "easy" solution is to make the next profiling session be as you've been doing with the user twiddling thumbs as the tech does the work; and the "technical" solution is for a superuser process to call defaults.write on devices.displays.<display name> on be half of (su) the user.
Considering it's only four mouse clicks in under ten seconds to set the display profile and they only have to do it once -- and that you can leave a photocopied instruction sheet with screenshots taped to the front of the monitor after you've finished the calibration -- I'd personally go with the "right" solution...but that's just me....
Cheers,
b&
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