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I did a fresh install of Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 LTS - 64 bit along side Windows 10. When the default nouveau driver was used for my graphics card..the color was purple - default color of Ubuntu Linux. When i went to additional drivers and installed the propitiatory but tested driver for my graphics card(Nvidia GEForce GT 610) - during install, apply and after restart the color has been changed to cobalt blue NOT purple. enter image description here

If i use the last driver Nouveau - it turns back to default purple color.

This is how the desktop looks like - cobalt blue.

Any idea - how to fix this? Thanks for advance.

As per the nvidia website -361 is the latest driver for this graphics card enter image description here

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Update

After 2-3 times restart this issue got resolved on it's own. I am getting the default purple kind of wallpaper with no cobalt blue kind of colors/shades. No change required on the nvidia-361 driver. enter image description here

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You might want to enable the graphics-drivers ppa on your system that contains the NVIDIA drivers:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update

Then you should have listings all the way up to 367.18 (Open Source) drivers. Seems to be working great for me.

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Hope this helps!

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  • Were you getting the same problem...cobalt blue kind of color/shade??? With 2-3 times reboot this issue has been resolved now...no change required on the nvidia-361 drivers side...moreover the driver that i am having is proprietary and tested...so i am not going to change unless there are any issues with that.
    – Ashu
    May 21, 2016 at 17:14
  • @Ashu Not really, but then again, being colorblind I have a hard time seeing colors like that anyway. I actually like the looks of the cobalt blue that you have posted. I did, however, do this change because I prefer open source to proprietary drivers. It was nice to actually see that NVIDIA is allowing for open source now. =)
    – Terrance
    May 21, 2016 at 17:17

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