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I installed Ubuntu 20.10 recently and only now noticed that colors are off but only in some places. If I take a screenshot and open it, it displays correctly but on Firefox, it doesn't. I applied the correct color profile, it works in most places except the system itself, I restarted the system as well.

Also tried doing what is said here, Strange colors in Image viewer and firefox, but it only made all programs display wrong colors.

Images:

What shows up:

What shows up

Correct color:

Correct color

Firefox (Left) Chrome (Right):

Firefox (Left) Chrome (Right)

I think that the color settings is the problem:

Screenshot of color settings

If so is there any way to make it work full screen?

So today I reinstalled Windows 10, colors were wrong before and after updating everything but I fixed it by disabling the color temperature control:

Color temperature control

Is there a option to do that on Linux?

System:

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
  • GPU: AMD RX580
  • Display Hanns.G HW173D
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Miguel Madureira
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So I think I figured it out basically I had the colors wrong before and now with Linux they are accurate because I found this image sky

And it only looks natural when I turn on color correction on radeon software, with color correction off it looks way too purplish. I was so used to seeing colors like they were On windows that I automatically assumed that the fault was on Linux and not on Windows.

Miguel Madureira
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  • The image you posted is pretty much indigo tinted / purpleish / unnatural. If you see this image looking natural on any of your devices / OSes, then be aware that it's a trap. Any image you edit on your machine may look all-right to you, but will look weird likely for everybody else. – Levente Mar 08 '21 at 14:42
  • Normally one would recommend for such case, that you do a "proper color calibration" of the graphics / driver / monitor using the argyll software or something similar, but since it's so challenging and it relies on buying an extra piece of colorimeter hardware, I would say simply pick a few reference images, put them in dropbox or something so that you can open them on various devices, and then just "eyeball" it; try to see whether your monitor matches how it looks on a number of other devices. – Levente Mar 08 '21 at 14:45
  • oh ok so It really is like that. I for now am going to stick with windows not because I don't wanna use linux but because I wanted to have a proper setup for linux, I'd like to have a kvm with linux and windows, when the time comes I'll probably buy new monitors because I only have one with only one input – Miguel Madureira Mar 09 '21 at 11:38