HDR has been supported in the hardware, drivers and monitors for a long time. It’s just the middle layer (Xorg and Wayland) that hasn’t supported HDR. Nobody wants to do the Xorg part, but work is underway for Wayland and compositors.
Could you give me / direct me to an explanation? Would love to set this up for myself.
Edit: is it only what archwiki says or is there more?:
Gamescope is a requirement for HDR10 support when playing games, to make use of this feature you must launch your Gamescope session using the --hdr-enabled flag.
Oh I don’t know about that tbh. Never tried it. Plasma 6 should have HDR to an extent and HDR work in general has picked up and is progressing rather nicely for Linux in general. :)
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HDR has been supported in the hardware, drivers and monitors for a long time. It’s just the middle layer (Xorg and Wayland) that hasn’t supported HDR. Nobody wants to do the Xorg part, but work is underway for Wayland and compositors.
Yup! Doable with gamescope-git and some env vars set to true. :)
Could you give me / direct me to an explanation? Would love to set this up for myself.
Edit: is it only what archwiki says or is there more?:
Sure! :)
This is the full archwiki article on HDR! :)
gamescope-sessionis not needed in my experience but the rest are.https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HDR_monitor_support
Hope this helps! :)
Pretty cool, and I assume non-game programs (like vlc) also have hdr when run through the steam session?
Oh I don’t know about that tbh. Never tried it. Plasma 6 should have HDR to an extent and HDR work in general has picked up and is progressing rather nicely for Linux in general. :)