The image displayed blends in with the white background in different areas as you rise the slider, so I don’t know if “barely visible” means if I should stop when I can barely see the edge of the biggest circle or if I should stop when the upper left circle is almost blended into the background but the other elements are still very visible.
Also, the gray shading changes as I move the mouse cursor around.
Are you still on the beta? The icon is meant to be monochrome, and the 6.4.0 release has that fixed - in the beta it would still use your icon theme instead of always that monochrome icon.
I have openSUSE’s Tumbleweed version 6.4.0
plasma6-desktop 6.4.0-1.1
What icon is supposed to show? On my system it displays the plasma monochrome logo.
Yeah, it is that. If some parts of the icon go invisible before others, then your icon can’t really be monochrome though. Or your display is doing some terrible sharpening or different local dimming to preserve the contrast on differently sized parts of the image.
It’s not an exotic monitor… Asus ROG Strix…
Neither is my LG C4, yet by default it does really annoying “enhancements” to the image
i don’t have plasma 6 but i imagine it something like this.
you set the gamma so that darkest parts of the image are barely visible
But that is a TV, which in PC mode or Game Mode should disable image enhancements. Mine is a PC Monitor over DisplayPort with 4:4:4 Chroma Subsampling. What GPU are you using? Is it connected via HDMI v2.1?
Ha, that’s funny. It does thankfully have separate settings, but the defaults in game mode are also really terrible.
Check your monitor’s OSD for things to turn off. I know some of the gaming brands have image “enhancement” nonsense on their monitors… Contrast enhancement on gaming monitors wouldn’t be a new thing.
rx 7900XTX, and yes, that does result in chroma subsampling. Doesn’t affect brightness curves though.
rather than fiddle with OSD and monitor buttons, this handy utility lets you do all that from the comfort of a point and click GUI
gddccontrol
It was the dynamic dimming on the monitor.
That was deprecated in favor of the CLI only ddcutil in openSUSE.
bummer… you could build it, i suppose.
it is nice to have a GUI so that you don’t have fiddle with those menus with the OSD, but only my older dell is in their database… my newer proArt monitor is not so i only have a few limited controls.
OpenSUSE also offers vdu_controls on Tumbleweed, and it’s available “experimentally” for Leap.
It’s a ddcutil GUI frontend that either uses the ddcutil-command or ddcutil-service (a DBUS service for libddcutil). More info at https://github.com/digitaltrails/vdu_controls. It’s written in PyQt and is desktop neutral.
(BTW, I’m the author.)
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