I submitted the survey today after a month of owning my new Framework 13 laptop. Wasn’t sure where else to put this.
Two issues I have with the 2.8k display are:
- Greens are super oversaturated on my screen, like it’s ridiculous
- Screen goes sort of dim after displaying blacks, and I have to move my mouse around a bunch to get it to brighten up again
I tried installing a custom display profile as recommended by others online, but that did not make things look any better. I did find a random display profile on another website for another laptop entirely, but it only makes the greens slightly more tolerable.
In fact, the color of the display in general is quite far off in the green-yellow range. A photo of a natural landscape, for example, looks almost synthetic on this display.
If anyone has any suggestions for color profiles that can be used to improve this display, or anyone from Framework can weigh in directly, it would be greatly appreciated.
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You’ve probably already tried it, but the Notebookcheck profile is typically recommended:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/uploads/tx_nbc2/BOE0CB4_01.icm
Try turning off varibright (windows) or panel power savings (Linux)
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Thank you, yes, that was the first color profile I downloaded, but it didn’t really fix things.
Part of the issue is that the bright greens don’t have good contrast from the whites, so white text on a bright green background looks really washed out.
I found a GitHub repo with a bunch of .icc profiles, and I downloaded and tried out all of them. This is the only one that seemed to strike a decent balance in terms of contrast and color accuracy, but it’s still not great:
To help a little further, I’ve been using a GNOME extension called “Colorblind Filters” set to “Tritanopia Correction” with the slider turned up to about 10%. This improves the green/white color contrast but sacrifices color accuracy which is why I only have it turned up slightly.
If you know of any other color profile repositories, I would love to experiment further with this. Otherwise I can only hope that Framework will bring a wide gamut, color accurate display to market for the Framework 13”.
I’m using Fedora Linux with the GNOME desktop, and I’ve already turned off all the power saving features related to the display. There are two dimming issues actually: one is that weird one I described earlier, and the other is that the display still dims automatically after 30s of inactivity regardless of what settings I choose.
To describe the first issue a little further, sometimes when I go from a window with a dark background to a window with a light background, it will take a few seconds for the display to lighten up. I wish I had a video of this, but just imagine the brightness slowly making its way to where it needs to be. This, again, is happening independent of whatever display settings I choose (power management, refresh rate, etc.), so I figure it has to be some inherent quality of the display. It’s like the pixels need time to warm up or something.
Try turning off panel power savings (adaptive backlight management)
Thanks for the tip! It looks like that will fix the issue with the weird screen brightness changes, but I don’t have the time to figure this out at the moment.
Just gonna leave this link to your thread on ABM as a reference:
community.frame.work/t/adaptive-backlight-management-abm/41055/67