The image on the monitor is too bright/contrast, what should I do?

Question

linux

I used Windows 10, Ubuntu was on VirtualBox and everything was fine, I recently bought a second hard drive and installed Ubuntu already on it, after that I tried Debian and Mint, everything was in order, except for one detail. On all distributions, the image on the monitor was such that the eyes soon began to hurt, and gray or faded colors were simply invisible to notice. Also, if you look at the monitor at least a little from above, the image "darkens". I tried to change the brightness/contrast settings and now I seem to have found a more or less tolerable option, but it's still not perfect. Video card Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. Proprietary driver tried to install - no improvement. I hope that I was able to explain the essence of the problem.
PS: reset the monitor settings to default, no change. In addition, when working on Win 10, everything is fine. The problem is only on Linux.

Answer 1

I managed to half solve the problem. In the Controls tab, set the Color Range to Limited. Also reduced digital vibrance to zero. It has become almost perfect, but the unpleasant feeling still does not leave, but it’s okay, you can work.

Answer 2

Reset the display settings to factory settings through the menu of the display itself.

Answer 3

Set up your monitor first. Does the problem only show up in VirtualBox or Windows too? In full screen mode or in a window as well?
Perhaps you need to configure ICC profiles.
https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/color-c...
GNOME: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/col...

Answer 4

1. Modern monitors have "presets" containing various combinations of brightness and contrast - try it. Or manually rotate.
2. xrandr, which tweaks the gamma. The lower the gamma, the darker the monitor.

Answer 5

a little off topic, but I can’t imagine comfortable work without redshift -- changes contrast and temperature depending on the time of day