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Notifications are too dark to read unless you have esports reflexes

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8567 · opened 2022-05-03 by qs-arno · updated 2022-05-03 · 2 comments · github
Qqs-arno 2022-05-03 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1647446817 (Mar 14, 2022 at 19:49:17)
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Kubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes, everything's up to date.

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

The notification popups (when a friend starts playing a game, when another LAN machine is ready for in-home streaming, etc.) go very dark about a second after popping up, making them difficult to impossible to read at a distance (e.g. from the couch).

  1. The popup appears and looks fine.
  2. About 1 second later, the entire popup goes very dark. It's not completely black, and you can still see that there's text there and that it's a Steam notification, etc. but it's too dark to actually read if you're not sitting right in front of the monitor (in my case, I'm using it through a hardware Steam Link that I'm viewing from the couch). When I'm at the console, though, I can read it (it's still really dark, but when I'm a foot away from the screen I can read it).
  3. About 5 seconds after that, the popup dismisses (as you'd expect it to).

The behaviour is the same regardless of whether the computer is just on the desktop, or running a game in full-screen mode (not windowed "full-screen", actual full-screen). I also thought maybe it might be related to in-home streaming somehow, so I made sure to test that it still happens at the console even when the PC isn't streaming to the Steam Link.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Launch Steam.
  2. Wait for a notification-worthy event to occur (for example, another LAN PC going online/offline).
  3. Observe the above behaviour.
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2022-05-03 github

Hello @qs-arno, this issue is already being tracked at #4735. Closing as a duplicate.

Qqs-arno 2022-05-03 github

Ah, right on. I did do a pre-search but I didn't find that one...I guess because it says "greyed out" (which to me reads as "disabled") instead of "dark". Thanks for the housekeeping!

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