xiccd is a bridge between colord and the X server. Its tasks are:
* to enumerate displays and register them in colord,
* to create default ICC profiles based on EDID data,
* to apply ICC profiles provided by colord,
* and to maintain user's private ICC storage directory.

It does basically the same as the gnome-settings-daemon colour plugin or colord-kde without depending on any particular desktop nor the GTK+ libraries.

The primary goal of xiccd is providing colour profile support for desktop environments other than GNOME and KDE that do not support native colour management yet, such as MATE, Xfce, LXDE, to name a few.