Bug 512476 - Spectacle screenshots also get affected by night light color
Summary: Spectacle screenshots also get affected by night light color
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Noah Davis
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2025-11-22 16:29 UTC by Stuben
Modified: 2025-11-22 16:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
Screenshot of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg with night light set at 3000k (78.23 KB, image/png)
2025-11-22 16:29 UTC, Stuben
Details
Screenshot of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg with night light turned off (78.24 KB, image/png)
2025-11-22 16:30 UTC, Stuben
Details

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Description Stuben 2025-11-22 16:29:52 UTC
Created attachment 187067 [details]
Screenshot of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg with night light set at 3000k

SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Enable night light with a strong noticable warm color temperature so you can easily tell if the screenshot has been affected (I am using 3000k)
2. Take a screenshot (I've used https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg opened inside Google Chrome
Version 144.0.7512.1 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)) 
3. Turn off night light
4. Take another screenshot

OBSERVED RESULT
Compare screenshots, notice the first screenshot having different colors than the second one

EXPECTED RESULT
Compare screenshots, both screenshots should look identical.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.8-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX Vega

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Google Chrome
Version 144.0.7512.1 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)
Comment 1 Stuben 2025-11-22 16:30:35 UTC
Created attachment 187068 [details]
Screenshot of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMPTE_Color_Bars.svg with night light turned off