[Bug 1785764] Re: Some applications render too dark when a 4K screen is attached.

2018-08-16 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Great! I checked and it was only a year ago that the rest of us noticed the problem and found a solution (including Matthew Paul Thomas, Robert Ancell and myself). If the problem is still occurring in 18.04 then we need to do something about it. That something is to ensure Ubuntu ships with NO

[Bug 1785764] Re: Some applications render too dark when a 4K screen is attached.

2018-08-16 Thread brandon lockley
Interesting... So i did what you suggested and deleted the colour profile for the display and that did fix the issue with chrome and image viewer. However it did not fix the green night mode issue. Oh well the problem i came here for is fixed so thanks for the help! -- You received this bug

[Bug 1785764] Re: Some applications render too dark when a 4K screen is attached.

2018-08-10 Thread Daniel van Vugt
* That "lime green" problem is something we noticed a year or two ago. Some people had lime green and others (me!) just had washed out colours, specifically only in Chrome and some image viewers (sound familiar?). The fix for everyone was to delete and disable the default colour profile in

[Bug 1785764] Re: Some applications render too dark when a 4K screen is attached.

2018-08-10 Thread brandon lockley
I don't think this is the TV. If it was this would only affect what is displayed on the TV itself and it would affect everything on the screen the same. But as you can see from the screenshot this only affects certain applications. I also have 2 regular 1080p monitors attached and it does not

[Bug 1785764] Re: Some applications render too dark when a 4K screen is attached.

2018-08-09 Thread Daniel van Vugt
In your TV settings, if there is nothing called limited/full range RGB then often it will just be called the "Black Level". Quote from bug 1668159: if your device doesn't yet support changing the setting, and your HDMI- connected TV looks a bit wrong then you can probably just change the TV

[Bug 1785764] Re: Some applications render too dark when a 4K screen is attached.

2018-08-09 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Always remember a TV is not a monitor. Monitors are made to respond to colour more accurately than TVs, out of the box. If you want to use a TV as a monitor then you will very likely need to change a lot of settings in the TV itself to make it behave more like an accurate monitor. I know it's

[Bug 1785764] Re: Some applications render too dark when a 4K screen is attached.

2018-08-09 Thread Brian Murray
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[Bug 1785764] Re: Some applications render too dark when a 4K screen is attached.

2018-08-07 Thread brandon lockley
Given the nature of this issue i can not think of a way to narrow it down to a specific package. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1785764 Title: Some applications render too dark when

[Bug 1785764] Re: Some applications render too dark when a 4K screen is attached.

2018-08-07 Thread Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source packages so that people