Bug 500781 - HDR causes some characters to have white dots
Summary: HDR causes some characters to have white dots
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: colour-management (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.3.1
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2025-02-26 18:08 UTC by MBR
Modified: 2025-02-27 17:46 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
Video of the bug (938.15 KB, video/mp4)
2025-02-26 18:08 UTC, MBR
Details
Image of the bug (102.52 KB, image/png)
2025-02-26 18:09 UTC, MBR
Details
System settings display scale without HDR (293.18 KB, image/png)
2025-02-26 18:22 UTC, MBR
Details
System settings display scale with HDR (313.98 KB, image/png)
2025-02-26 18:23 UTC, MBR
Details

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Description MBR 2025-02-26 18:08:10 UTC
Created attachment 178908 [details]
Video of the bug

SUMMARY
Some characters gain "dots" when HDR is enabled, occurs in steam and discord (from what I noticed), discord is running in wayland mode and steam in xwayland.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Observe characters
2. Turn on HDR
3. Observe characters again

OBSERVED RESULT
Some characters now have white dots on some parts

EXPECTED RESULT
They shouldn't?

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250224
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.13.4-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7C56
System Version: 2.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Check attached files, much easier than explaining
^ Very noticable with ":", corners of "T" and bottom of letters "P" and "M"
Comment 1 MBR 2025-02-26 18:09:04 UTC
Created attachment 178909 [details]
Image of the bug
Comment 2 MBR 2025-02-26 18:22:52 UTC
Created attachment 178910 [details]
System settings display scale without HDR
Comment 3 MBR 2025-02-26 18:23:32 UTC
Created attachment 178911 [details]
System settings display scale with HDR

Also occurrs in system settings, with the display scale slider (dot at the bottom of every line)
Comment 4 Zamundaaa 2025-02-27 15:28:02 UTC
Can you also see that in screenshots (when viewed in SDR mode), and/or when zooming in a lot on the desktop? I suspect that this could be the display doing some processing to make the image "better".
Comment 5 MBR 2025-02-27 15:43:23 UTC
If you by "zoom in" mean kwin zoom (Meta + scroll), the effect essentially disappears after zooming in a few times (on the HDR monitor)


Aaaaaand I just checked, I have "super sharpness" turned on in my monitor settings, turning it off removes the dots... but also makes everything a bit blurry, so I guess this is not a KDE bug after all :/
Comment 6 Zamundaaa 2025-02-27 17:46:12 UTC
Okay, then we can close this.

(In reply to MBR from comment #5)
> Aaaaaand I just checked, I have "super sharpness" turned on in my monitor
> settings, turning it off removes the dots... but also makes everything a bit
> blurry, so I guess this is not a KDE bug after all :/
Heh, I have a similar "sharpness" setting on my monitor, which you also can't fully turn off or it actively makes everything really blurry. I could at least tune it to not visibly change the image a lot, but you really shouldn't have to... Displays are so annoying!