Hi all,

I am grappling with achieving the same style/colour/shade/tone across distributions, using the same style/themes - there is a definite difference from desktop to desktop, with Devuan is is quite bright and/or white, while on pclinuxos its darker.

Does anyone know why this is the case, is there some kind of colour profile?

Thanks for any pointers - slackbat

The color themes are done by the individual distros, and thus up to those working on the themes. As far as I know, there is no synchronization. I'm pretty sure that none of them have color-calibrated monitors or displays for such work, so what you are seeing is different from what they made or even from what their own teams were looking at during the design.

Thanks for the reply.

I have looked inside the theme/style files, only to find the hex colours are the same across distributions, such as Xfce-dusk, so it has to be something else - like a distribution colour profile in my reasoning FWIW

slackbat

Run 'xrandr --verbose' and check gamma, brightness and CTM (colour transform matrix).

Thanks for the helpful reply.

I was wondering about xrandr since my post of yesterday, but only to adjust the brightness; I will give your idea a go.

All the best.

slackbat

I have used your suggestion, and have found differences across distributions, however, it appears that due to using redshift to reduce blue light, I am receiving different output, but when I kill redshift, all output is the same, basically gamma is 1.0 as is brightness, butt his does not explain the difference between distributions of the theme/style colours, even when redshift is killed those difference remain, I am thinking that the problem could be with GTK across distributions.

BTW the xgamma command shows the gamma without redshift interference ie 1.0 for rgb.

slackbat

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