@mavica_again Remember ho well PowerStrip worked to overclock your GPU and add custom resolutions/refresh rates? I still use it on my Windows 98 machine. Well, as it turns out, nowadays on Wayland to add custom resolutions/refresh rates you have to dump your monitor's EDID, modify it with some dude's tool, then add it as a firmware blob to be loaded by the kernel on boot. But you also have to be sure to include it in your initramfs so that it _can_ be loaded on boot. Kill me.

@mavica_again I read about this while I was still using X11, and I thought it was ridiculous. But I'm on Wayland now and I thought I'd give it a try. Guess what? Doing this also results in losing your screen's built-in colour profile, so my screen looked like mud. And my custom resolution didn't even work. My 98 machine can drive my CRT at 640x480@120hz without all this nonsense. Isn't this fucking ridiculous?

@IvanDSM i have yet to figure out a way to apply a colour profile on my thinkpad at all in the first place. since it's a tablet one and i mainly use it for art i am really considering gritting my teeth and just giving a shot at windows 10 on it (the only reason i haven't yet is it's a 2008 centrino with 4gb RAM but since i only need a drawing program with wacom support and nothing else, tiny10 will probably run smooth enough)

@mavica_again Unlucky for you, I have relevant but somewhat unhelpful experience with this matter. 8 years ago I looked into applying a colour correction profile on my ThinkPad T60. I used... xiccd I think? which was smoothly integrated into xfce. Now obviously since I'm not rich I don't have a colorimeter, so I looked for readymade ICCs and I came across a big archive with official IBM ICCs for ThinkPads, and found one that matched my panel model.

@IvanDSM i have that ICC file, but no amount of running different programs that purport to apply it seem to have any effect, because graphical displays under linux are a mess

@IvanDSM and i know it has no effect because i have fed it a hand-crafted ICC file that should completely kill the red gamma to 0 and it did not do it. but it says it did it in the terminal

@mavica_again Ah, sorry, I didn't see your replies in time because I'm on my broken and slow phone... I think it might be because the ICCs lack full screen correction indeed, but have you tried registering them directly with your drawing app of choice?

@IvanDSM it was years ago and honestly i don't care enough to waste more time with linux

@IvanDSM i have never had a problem issuing gamma correction in any version of windows that supported it, so.