# Will Framework 16 get glass display with OLED and IPS panel?

**URL:** <https://community.frame.work/t/will-framework-16-get-glass-display-with-oled-and-ips-panel/80061>\
**Category:** Framework Laptop 16\
**Tags:** framework-laptop-16-amd-ai-300, expansion-bay-shell\
**Created:** [January 24, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/will-framework-16-get-glass-display-with-oled-and-ips-panel/80061 "2026-01-24T20:33:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![JakeSully](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/jakesully/32/45327_2.png) [@JakeSully](https://community.frame.work/u/JakeSully)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/will-framework-16-get-glass-display-with-oled-and-ips-panel/80061/1 "2026-01-24T20:33:12Z")

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I hope to see framework team decide to some day provide a part which is glass display without touch but with OLED panel or IPS and improved light sensor that makes brightness go up and down more smoothly. Right now i noticed it goes up and down more chunky on linux like instead of smooth it goes like 10%, 20%, 30% etc it jumps than adjust smoothly like a macbook can do. You can see it goes brighter, then darker, then brighter in a chunky steps.

What do you all here think?

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**Author:** ![James3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@James3](https://community.frame.work/u/James3)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/will-framework-16-get-glass-display-with-oled-and-ips-panel/80061/2 "2026-01-24T20:48:59Z")

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Hi,

The light sensor on the FW16 is actually pretty good.  
It can detect quite fine changes in brightness.  
`cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/in_illuminance_raw`  
The “jump in brightness” problem is caused by the way gnome handles it.  
There is a whole discussion about it here:

> [@\[TRACKING\] "auto-brightness" aka ambient light sensor in Linux? Details?](https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-auto-brightness-aka-ambient-light-sensor-in-linux-details/16746):
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> Hi all, I installed Arch (Endeavour) on my Framework with KDE and so far everything is running pretty smoothly. One of the few details I have not figured out is the ambient light sensor. I have seen texts about other Linux Distros that seem to imply that automatic brightness might work there out of the box but nowhere could I find any details about how the sensor or automatic brightness adjustment can be used. I also could not find any system setting that refers to this function. Is anyone her…

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**Author:** ![JakeSully](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/jakesully/32/45327_2.png) [@JakeSully](https://community.frame.work/u/JakeSully)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/will-framework-16-get-glass-display-with-oled-and-ips-panel/80061/3 "2026-01-24T21:05:39Z")

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thing is that is for 13 inch framework not 16.

So i think there needs a guide for framework 16 too. Incase of different parts/sensors being used.

Also i’m using zorin os so i would like to see easy step by step guide for that or complete .sh script doing work for me 🙂 to adjust sensor behaviour in linux so it adjusts smoothly.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/original/1X/64c81a89f963ddb07633887baceb642a4b056046.png) [@system](https://community.frame.work/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/will-framework-16-get-glass-display-with-oled-and-ips-panel/80061/4 "2026-07-23T21:05:47Z")

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