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Colour Saturation (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Nephalis@discuss.tchncs.de to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
 

Hey there,

I think its not the first time you read about this.

I recently installed a Linux on my gaming pc and I want to fade out of Windows11 and into Linux only. So far so good.

One of my biggest concerns where the colours of my monitors. Since Adrenaline is not available on Linux, I hoped for another solution to get the colours bright and bangy. But it seems impossible with wayland.
And noo, its not a setting that my monitor can provide. It never was and it never will (I write it down since in every thread about this topic, someone was mentioning it sounds like something the monitor setting should handle).

  • For X11 there was vibrantLinux.
  • A maybe instable solution could be vibrant-cli.
  • For games there is Gamescope thanks to Valve. But this only works for Games started from within Steam.

So this means, my Desktop/Browser still is not as bangy as I want it to be.

My search lead me to KWin scripting could be the solution. This is where I need some advice or somebody to confirm!

If I want to increase the overall colour saturation for my monitors, the correct way to go is to create a KWin script that does it, pack it as a package and use it.

I found the KWin Scripting tutorial over at develop.kde.org and I feel like solving this problem could be interesting.

Since I have no experience with JS, ECMA-Scripting or QMA, all this will be new and I want to know beforehand if I walk the right path. If not, a lot of time will be consumed just to realise I was wrong.

Thanks for reading :)

PS: I like KDE very much

PPS: Just if you never heard of Adrenaline: I have Radeon gpu

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[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not quite. At the end of the day they're sets of correction factors for the different colours at different intensities.
You can use that to bring the output of your display or printer in line with what the camera recorded and you need a colorimeter to do that accurately.
But no one can stop you from overcorrecting. So you could just design a profile that you like and use it. Just like your screen may already offer different colour profiles. I know most TVs do.