Re: [As-users] Desktop image appears washed out
Renegade Muskrat (dramaley@spatulacity.cx)
Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:50:18 -0600
This problem is resolved. It turned out that my images were at fault. I
used ImageMagick's convert command to convert the images to a Windows
bitmap (to make sure there was not transparency or gamma information
saved), then back to PNG. Now the images display properly.
At 11:26 AM 1/10/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>Are those PNG images ?
>Do they have Gamma setting saved in them ?
>do you have SCREEN_GAMMA env var set?
>
>Try setting SCREEN_GAMMA to different values between 1.0 and 2.0
>also you can send me one of the images so I can see what's wrong with
>them .
>
>Sasha
>
>
>Renegade Muskrat wrote:
>
>> On AS 2.00.01 i'm trying to add desktop images. I copied some
images
>to
>> ~/.afterstep/non-configurable/[0123]_background. The images show up
on
>
>> the appropriate desktops, but they don't appear as i expect them
to.
>All
>> images appear as if the contrast has been turned down and the
>brightness
>> has been turned up. I've examined the look file to see if there was
>some
>> option controlling how the background is rendered, but i did not
see
>> anything. Is there some option that i missed that will make the
>> background images display without being washed out?
-- Dan
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