Pink(sih) backgrounds instead of grey

justMe

Hi,
It's been a week since I'm around my desktop computer and realized that Firefox (but not only!) renders some funky pinkish backgrounds instead of what was previously displayed as light grey. It seems that only lighter shades of grey are affected - all <code> tags, some input/dropdown fields also have pinkish hue. I can also see a pinkish trail when I quickly move through Budgie Settings options (although the main highlight is grey). I was away with my laptop for a couple of weeks (also running Solus Budgie) so I'm not sure when exactly that have happened, but I just checked my laptop again - absolutely no issues with it and everything looks as grey as it should 🙂

Hope the attached images would explain me better myself 🙂
Hope someone have an idea of what might be causing this.
Many thanks in advance!

P.S. Apologies! Just saw my post on my laptop and everything looks perfectly fine there, so the images are irrelevant. Should have checked them on another monitor before posting..
Just to explain - the whole window background in Firefox is with this pinkish hue as is the print area in the Calculator app. And it happens over light grey backgrounds only - the lagom test shows 200 as grey, while everything 244-254 are in pink. Everything else looks perfectly fine - no other issues.

justMe

Update: So far I've tried:

Starting Solus from a USB drive on my desktop - Fortitude 4.1 is the latest I have and it looks perfectly fine. So it is confirmed not to be a hardware issue - PC graphics, monitor, cable etc.
Just to be 100% sure, I fully updated Solus on my laptop and checked the output on my monitor with the same cable. Everything is being displayed beautifully;
Ran out of ideas I did reset Budgie... It's the same story - pinkish greys still exist.

I'm running Solus on AMD Ryzen 5 2400G with its integrated Vega graphics.

YuriTheHenrique

justMe Tried using a new user? Another user would not have this sort of problem if it is an user configuration problem... also, did you tried installing solus on another partition or other hard drive to test?
When using live usb the system is copied to RAM and don't use HDD or SSD of any sorts, just so we can discard hardware problems with SATA or HDD/SSD.

justMe

YuriTheHenrique Thanks!
Would have tried to switch the user, but I simply selected Plasma (X11) from the login screen menu and logged with the same user. Voila, didn't end my session and I found everything is back to normal (phew!) 🙂 Same procedure, but selecting Budgie makes no difference - the screen is as beautiful as it should. I have work to do now, but I may fiddle a bit more with it later.
I'm very happy my eyes do not bleed anymore - thanks again!

YuriTheHenrique

justMe It may be a bug of some sorts in budgie, if it happens again, don't hesitate in asking, a rare bug is still a bug to be tracked!

justMe

YuriTheHenrique Well, here it is again 🙂
At least now I think I know it is due to Night Light being set to values of about 3000K (and below). Reboot does not help (as it didn't do previously) if I select Budgie as DE. So far the way to get over it is to lock the screen, select "Switch user ..." then select Plasma without changing the user. Of course, there might be much easier and/or elegant way around. After greys were back to normal I tried the same action but selecting Budgie - and the red/pink hue was back the moment I unlock the user.
Not sure of the exact color temperature setting one should use, but I'm currently at 3000K. If this can be confirmed by anyone else it might be a good idea submitting a bug.