HDR not working properly (Linux)

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Steps to reproduce

  • Enable hdr on hyprland
  • Open obsidian

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Y

Expected result

Color properly scaled to use 10 bit color.

Actual result

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.

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I am sorry but we do not support 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.

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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!