On my glossy narrow viewing angle LCD laptop, in addition to brightness, I would like to be able to adjust the contrast by pressing a function key. At the console command prompt: ~ $ xgamma returns: Red 0.900, Green 0.900, Blue 0.900 I would like to construct a command line that takes the last returned … Read more
Most monitors have settings for brightness and contrast. I understand the brightness setting, it only (mostly) controls the brightness of the LCD backlight. How does the contrast setting work, exactly, though? Does it affect the backlight? Does it affect the panel? Does it cause blacks to be more / less black? If so, why would … Read more
Most monitors have settings for brightness and contrast. I understand the brightness setting, it only (mostly) controls the brightness of the LCD backlight. How does the contrast setting work, exactly, though? Does it affect the backlight? Does it affect the panel? Does it cause blacks to be more / less black? If so, why would … Read more
So here is the deal, all my video players, EXCEPT winamp, are displaying the video with a very white contrast. I have the community combined codec pack installed, I have tried reinstalling the codecs and reinstalling the players. Not sure why winamp works, but since winamp has problems with aero and full screen, I need … Read more
On my Lenovo Laptop, occasionally, the display goes all the way down to the lowest contrast. And then it comes all the way back. Is there any way that I can eliminate this forever? Answer By “contrast” do you mean brightness? The power managment software does automatically dim the screen after a period of inactivity. … Read more
On my Lenovo Laptop, occasionally, the display goes all the way down to the lowest contrast. And then it comes all the way back. Is there any way that I can eliminate this forever? Answer By “contrast” do you mean brightness? The power managment software does automatically dim the screen after a period of inactivity. … Read more
I can’t really think of any reason as to why this would happen, but lately my laptop has been acting a bit odd. It is an HP Pavilion g7 2017cl. This has happened now twice – the screen will slowly (over a period of about 10 seconds) fade into a much higher contrast that’s really … Read more
Problem: The brightness/contrast on my laptop is way off. There is little conrast and on the maximum brightness everything is just kind of hazy/halo like. Lowering the brightness a little bit doesn’t help and quickly makes everything very dark, but still hazy/halo like with no contrast to be able to see borders on windows. What … Read more
There are many suggestions but they usually apply to documents. They do not work on scanned papers. Is there a way to decrease the contrast of a pdf image altogether? Answer I would suggest converting the file to JPG to be able to edit the brightness and contrast. You can use free online sites such … Read more
I was using High Contrast Black till today, but something messed up and I started seeing ugly colored text in chrome, I did a clean chrome install but no success, then I tried using Dark mode from the Windows Default Theme, everything’s fine with it, but all application (like Adobe reader, notepad, some application’s toolbar) … Read more
