Ubuntu – How to Ubuntu be made grayscale?

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I'd like to make everything grayscale. The utility xcalib can be used to invert the colours displayed (every colour displayed is changed to its compliment) using the following command:

xcalib -i -a

How could I make the display grayscale? Could I desaturate in some way, for example?

Thanks!

Best Answer

You could also add the following to your xorg configuration to achieve a greyscale output:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "greyscale configuration"
    Defaultdepth 8
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth 8
        Visual "GrayScale"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

This might work depending on your video driver.

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