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Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night.
http://jonls.dk/redshift
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Burn-in effect #564

Open eliadl opened 6 years ago

eliadl commented 6 years ago

I use the default config file provided. Only when night light is in effect, scrolling over text shows burn-in effect. (e.g. with dark text over light background it's like the text leaves a trail that disappears quickly) I tried changing every field but nothing seems to solve it.

Using up-to-date Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with nVidia GeForce GTX 1070.

eliadl commented 6 years ago

I found a workaround for this issue. Setting my display's "Response Time" to "Normal", rather than "Fast", seems to solve it.

The price I pay is, of course, the display's response time.

OskarCarl commented 6 years ago

This sounds like a hardware "issue". Many displays have a feature called overdrive. It increases response times but causes the monitor to slightly dip over the target values. Its a hardware limitation and the only way to fix it if it becomes an issue is disabling overdrive. Often the display osd menus hide the feature behind config settings like the "Response Time" you already mentioned.