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For the last year I've been playing lots of classic DOOM. DOOM has one feature that I started to appreciate ever since I learned about it, which is the ability to roll up brightness very high. This is what doom looks like when I play it:

I miss this thing in lots of other games. Recently I've been trying to get into Deus Ex (2000) via wine but it was so dark I couldn't see shit. Maybe it's my monitor that's not very powerful or my environment that's pretty bright by itself, but I feel just the simple ability to gamma correct any game or the whole desktop would solve this problem for me.

Do you know any such util that works on wayland?

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Edit: Confirmed Gammastep to work on Niri and Hyprland, but doesn't work on Plasma.


Depends on the compositor.

  • Hyprland has hyprsunset, you can increase the brightness without changing the color temperature using hyprsunset -i --max_gamma 200% -g LEVEL.
  • For Wlroots compositors, you can try Gammastep. Wlroots seems to be the only compositor that implements a gamma correction protocol (though there is already an official color correction protocol in Wayland).
  • Plasma on Wayland doesn't have a gamma setting at the moment, but you can load ICC color profiles that might work. Also see this thread for another approach.
  • GNOME and Cinnamon have this tool.
[–] gera@feddit.nu 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yay, gammastep is just what I needed!

gammastep -O 8000K -g 1.5:1.5:1.5