Why little yellow tint on display?

14.04 display display-manager display-resolution color-management

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Solution 1

Try this:

Open System Settings and go into Color.
From here, click Add Profile.
Select the Best RGB profile and click Add.
Hopefully, a window will come up asking you to download extra packages. Let it install them.
Back inside the Color settings, select your monitor and click Calibrate....

Solution 2

Anyone finding this who is running Ubuntu 18.04. I had the same problem with a dull, yellow hue to my display. This was resolved by navigating to

Activities -> Search for 'color' -> Select Color settings 'Calibrate the color of your devices...'

Turn the 'Laptop Screen' profile and switch it to the 'Off' position and restart your laptop. For me, on this old Sony Vaio, no more yellow things perturb the display.

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Ramesh Murugesan

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Ramesh Murugesan over 1 year

Why little bit yellow tint on Ubuntu OS? When I see white colors on both the windows and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is little yellow display. Why Its little tuned by Yellow color? Sorry I don't know weather its right place to ask. But I searched somewhere doesn't find answer.
- Wilf about 9 years
  
  Could you add a screenshot/photo of the issue?
- Ramesh Murugesan about 9 years
  
  Sorry @Wilf I think screenshot wont explain my issue. If possible just open any website on both windows and Ubuntu. Just watch out the white color on the website. Sure you will come to know the different.
- TheWanderer about 9 years
  
  Do you happen to have f.lux installed?
- Ramesh Murugesan about 9 years
  
  @Zacharee1 No its a fresh OS.
Hannu about 9 years

Alternatively, if the Windows setup has the screen calibrated then COPY the color profile (*.icm or similar) file to the Linux installation and activate it - or vice versa.
RgnKjnVA over 5 years

Not sure why my wording was 'corrected' into grammatically incorrect English (with 2 approvals, no less). There was nothing wrong with my original wording. And 'tinge' is a word by the way: (tĭnj)► v. To apply a trace of color to; tint.
Boris K almost 3 years

Thank you! I was really struggling and that worked perfectly!