wdisplays VS wl-gammactl

Compare wdisplays vs wl-gammactl and see what are their differences.

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wdisplays wl-gammactl
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wdisplays

Posts with mentions or reviews of wdisplays. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-11.

wl-gammactl

Posts with mentions or reviews of wl-gammactl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-25.
  • Actually Portable Vim (With a Cute Vimrc)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2023
    I don't know what you mean by color management - is it the calibration of the display with xrite/argyll?

    For ICC profiles colormgr can help: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ICC_profiles#Wayland

    If you just need basic brightness, contrast and gamma, wl-gammactl should do that: https://github.com/mischw/wl-gammactl

    BTW Hyprland is not required, it's just the most practical way to have shortcuts key mappings in Wayland

  • Setting Contrast Value in Wayland
    2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 22 Jan 2022
    However, this does not work in Wayland since it obviously belongs to the X Window System. I started searching the web for a possible solution and found wl-gammactl, which is a GUI for wlroots (https://github.com/mischw/wl-gammactl) and the gnome-gamma-tool (https://github.com/zb3/gnome-gamma-tool), but neither of them seemed to work because of missing dependencies, which can't be installed or invalid version numbers of required packages (e.g. found 1.20 but need: '>=1.23'). When attempting to build the gnome-gamma-tool, the following error message appears (despite Colord being installed):
  • Being productive in Plasma 5.23.2 - So I've heard KDE Plasma is bad with Wayland and multi-monitors...
    1 project | /r/kde | 14 Nov 2021
    It's very much possible with Wayland. Whether Plasma supports it is another question, unfortunately. Great program though, you can control it with commands and set an invert screen colors keybind.
  • How to invert screen colors?
    2 projects | /r/swaywm | 20 Jul 2021
    What would be the best way to implement this? I tried wl-gammactl https://github.com/mischw/wl-gammactl with those settings but the screen just goes fully white?
  • Import gamma colors from X11 to Wayland
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 20 Jun 2021
    Probably it just support sway as said here on github
  • How to control OLED brightness in Wayland
    2 projects | /r/linuxhardware | 2 Apr 2021
    Wayland is the protocol applications use to talk to compositors. What you need to control (this kind of-, since I assume you want a software overlay) brightness depends on the compositor/desktop environment you use. For wlroots based compositors (wayfire, sway) wl-gammactl or wlr-brightness could be useful. For Gnome (below version 40) the soft-brightness extension looks like what you need.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wdisplays and wl-gammactl you can also consider the following projects:

wlr-randr - An xrandr clone for wlroots compositors

wlr-brightness - Adjust the brightness of wlroots-based compositors such as sway.

kanshi - Dynamic display configuration (mirror)

swaybg - Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library

dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg

swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland

wdisplays - Mirror of cyclopsian/wdisplays

kiwmi - A fully programmable Wayland Compositor

wayland - Core Wayland protocol and libraries (mirror)

xcalib - Load 'vcgt'-tag of ICC profiles to X-server and MS-Windows. Works on calibration stage, which can be a precondition for display ICC color conversions.