Re: F20: Some applications show wrong colours for some images when run in a KDE session

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On 01/23/14 17:04, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> since I upgraded to Fedora 20, some applications show some graphics with
> wrong colours when run in a KDE session.
> With "wrong" colours" I mean it looks like blue and green are swapped.
> With "some applications" I mean especially Firefox and Thunderbird, but
> also Krita.
>
> Example: The waving Panda on the Fedora project's startpage
> http://fedoraproject.org/static/images/panda-wave.png
> In Firefox, the panda looks as if the panda was drawn in different
> shades of green, the same in Krita and Gimp. In Konqueror and Chrome the
> image looks blueish, as it should be.
>
> Some things I noticed:
>
> - I'm not entirely sure whether or not the problem only affects PNG
> images, but every wrongly coloured image for which I actually checked
> which graphics format it is stored in, it turned out to be PNG.
> OTOH, not every PNG image is affected. For example, in Thunderbird and
> Firefox the Thunderbird logo here
> https://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/release/start/
> looks OK.
> I just noticed that Krita and Gimp still show the image with wrong
> colours (the bird is green).
>
> - I see that behaviour when I run a Fedora KDE Spin live image but not
> with the Gnome live image.
>
> - The problem only occurs in a KDE session - not in a Gnome, Cinnamon or
> XFCE session on the same machine. For example: I log into a KDE session,
> start Firefox, navigate to the Fedora start page and see a green panda.
> I log out of KDE and into Gnome and Firefox shows a blue Panda on the
> start page (in fact, there is no problem with wrong colours in the Gnome
> session at all - regardless of application or image).
>
> - Info about my graphics card:
> # lshw -class video
>   *-display
>        description: VGA compatible controller
>        product: GF114 [GeForce GTX 560 Ti]
>        vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
>        physical id: 0
>        bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
>        version: a1
>        width: 64 bits
>        clock: 33MHz
>        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master
> cap_list rom
>        configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
>        resources: irq:61 memory:f4000000-f5ffffff
> memory:e0000000-e7ffffff memory:e8000000-ebffffff ioport:e000(size=128)
> memory:f6000000-f607ffff
>
> - Whether I use Nouveau or the proprietary Nvidia driver doesn't make
> any difference. As I already wrote, I even see that in the KDE live image.
>
> What can I do to pin the culprit of the problem - or maybe even fix it?
>

I don't know....  But I thought I should tell you that I don't see this behavior.  Running F20, fedup'ed from F19 with nVidia graphics and drivers from rpmfusion.

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