XnView Software

Glad I could help!

Ok, I found a solution / workaround - at least for KDE.

To globally disable this dimming of background when a dialog box is open: In KDE settings -> "Desktop Effects" disable "Dialog Parent" .

Or you could make a "window rule" to just disable desktop effects for XnViewMP: Right click on Xnview ...

I just tried it with different Operating Systems. Windows 10 doesn't show this behavior. The image stays bright when the color-adjustment window is open. But in both Ubuntu (gnome) and Kubuntu (KDE) the image becomes noticably darker, when a menu window is in the foreground.

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Hello,

when changing settings for colors, for example setting white point, the image gets darkened a bit, so changes to color settings can't be properly previewed. Can this behavior be disabled?

In case this is OS-specific: I'm running XnViewMP 1.4.5 Linux on Kubuntu 23.04

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