Disable f.lux's automatic adjustments based on time/location
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I love the color/brightness options of f.lux but I find it incredibly frustrating that there seems to be no way to disable its automatic adjustments based on the time of day. I don't want separate automatic settings for Daytime, Sunset, and Bedtime, and I don't even care whether f.lux keeps track of the time of day. I simply want to select the color/brightness that I want at a given moment and enable it with no automatic adjustments. Is there any way to do this??
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Agreed. I have Seasonal Affective Disorder and bluer light later in the night in winter is very helpful.
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@Shyman You can set all three sliders to the same value, but that is difficult to do throughout the day. The idea is if you just adjust the current slider, that we will learn over time what you like.
Our main goal with f.lux is to make the timing consistent from day to day. Can you say when you find it's really not working?
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@ceramicmonster You may like the "working late" preset if you prefer more light in the early evening.
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@herf "Working late" seemed to be what I wanted today, but one annoying thing is that when I switched back, my "custom colors" profile was lost. Is there supposed to be a way to save the custom colors? I just want the colors slightly less orange than the defaults. I shouldn't have to readjust that every time I switch to "working late". Alternately I would have been fine with "disable until x", where I can choose a time.
Thanks for considering my feedback.
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I have a similar problem. I live in Sweden and the sunset time is 14:34 now, it will be earlier then. The sunrise and sunset are not suit to be the reference of work time and rest time in Nordic countries. If I can set the sunrise and sunset time, for example, that would be more practical.
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I have the same problem. I can't adjust my room curtain and the light with the monitor. It must be possible to set the monitor light not automated.
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I am wondering, whether some old version of f.lux would work in such a manner that we are able to manually specify the screen colour without extra smarts from the software?
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I have now created a Windhawk mod for this purpose. This mod adjusts the Windows API for f.lux in such a way that f.lux thinks the time is always same, therefore not changing the colour automatically.
Note that this software works only under Windows. I see that the thread here is tagged MacOS, but it gets a lot of views and many viewers might be actually using Windows, therefore I posted here anyway.
You can get it here: https://windhawk.net/mods/maintain-flux-colour-temperature
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@levitation This works perfectly. As much as I appreciate the limitation for typical users, some of us want a simple feature to disable any time-based screen adjustment. Thanks! Absolutely saved me from having to look into alternatives that won't throw off my automation every morning at sunrise.
