Colors appear dim and washed out, as if reading the sdr color values as hdr.
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.11.7
Installer version: v1.11.7
Operating system: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:11:22 +0000 6.18.9-2-cachyos
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
Additional information
App is using native wayland. Passing --use-gl=egl argument or disabling hardware acceleration both fixed this. Using the latest stable release on arch linux with hyprland.
Obsidian already uses hardware acceleration when available. It is my understanding that --use-gl=eg is deprecated way to enable hardware acceleration. The modern switch is (–enable-gpu).
This issue is either specific to your system/gpu/gpu driver or it’s problem between electron and wayland.
We do not have control over these things. Sorry.
Thanks for the quick response, after checking again, the deprecated flag just made electron fallback to software rendering. Despite obsidian being the only electron app to have this problem, it seems it is probably just something odd with my setup. Thanks for the help!