f.lux beta (another thread)
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I've been using the Beta for two weeks or so and I like some of the new features - mainly the ability to automatically go a bit "deeper" late in the night. However there have been some issues as well.
One gripe of mine has been the (often mentioned) taskbar bug where the f.lux icon resets itself to the 1st (visible) position on every restart.
The other is related to my specific setup which is a dual-monitor: Primary (external HDMI monitor) & Secondary (laptop screen). I've noticed that f.lux beta adjusts my gamma (for the lack of better terminology) on my Primary monitor depending on the Secondary (laptop) monitor's brightness. This happens even during the day. I normally keep my laptop at 25% and external monitor stays always at 30%. However when I play with brightness values on the laptop monitor (for example in the Windows 10 action center) and going from 0% > 25% > 50% >75% > 100% the picture on my primary external monitor changes as well even though its brightness is still set to 30%.
0% brightness on laptop results to something like 1.1 gamma on external monitor (colors look a bit washed-out and the whole picture is sort of like "looking through a fog").
25% = 1.05
50% = 1.00
75% = 0.95
100% = 0.90I since switched back to the regular version since it allows me to maintain more vibrant (not so washed-out) colors independently on the brightness settings on my laptop's monitor. Even with only 25% brightness on laptop I'm getting nicer colors (0.9 gamma) on my external screen.
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@K4m1k4z3 thanks - this should not happen except at the most extreme dimming settings. We will fix.
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Still has this bug with the task tray.
After each Windows (10) reboot, it forces itself back here.
I want it to stay here like it did before.
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Yeah he hasn't said anything about trying to address this yet.
For the record, I don't hide any of my Notification Area icons.
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@No.794 we are working on this - we've added about 20 features, and we want people to have a chance to see them before the icon is hidden.
It is hard to explain how big the difference is between savvy users and the less sophisticated ones that don't know how to find the app, but we get hundreds of emails about "how do I change settings? every day. (But it will not stay there forever, especially for people who don't want it to.)
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@herf Alright, thanks for the answer. Just wanted to make sure the issue was acknowledged.
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@little-nemo if you can find our registry (HKCU/Software/Michael Herf/flux/Preferences you may be able to adjust "nightbri" and "latebri" to do this... I think they will work. :)
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I have been using Flux for yrs, I now am at 4.28, the only real issue I have which didn't with older version is when playing a game it is slow to adjust and after I exit game, I have to mouse click on desktop so Flux focuses on that and then it dims to proper setting.
On feature set, since there are a lot of settings now, once you have user set (3 sliders set) it should be saved to a user profile.
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@Edkiefer thanks yes, we should have a save button for the settings.... named presets are coming
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Are you still intending to implement some sort of chime for Philips Hue Bridge pairing? I have attempted to use this feature multiple times but it just doesn't seem to want to pair but I am not sure if it is honestly discovering the bridge in the first place.
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It should chime and show a notifier for 30 seconds after you turn it on.
Does https://www.meethue.com/api/nupnp have anything?
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I really do like the beta version but the notifications can get annoying. Even if I go to notification windows and turn off f.lux's notification privileges it seems to reset the next day. Would love an option to mute notifications from f.lux.
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@lbux_ said in f.lux beta (another thread):
I really do like the beta version but the notifications can get annoying. Even if I go to notification windows and turn off f.lux's notification privileges it seems to reset the next day. Would love an option to mute notifications from f.lux.
There is one you can turn off: the Backwards Alarm Clock.
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@TwoCables Yeah, I turned that one off as soon as I realized what it did. Problem is that I alt + tab between let's say Overwatch and Discord and I get the notification for f.lux has been disabled/enabled constantly.
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The new menu with no direct access to "movie mode" etc is not my taste.
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And the two curved lines in the main display give not really any important info (what do they mean anyway?) so I think it would be better to leave it away.
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@AlbertBaer said in f.lux beta (another thread):
And the two curved lines in the main display give not really any important info (what do they mean anyway?) so I think it would be better to leave it away.
I made a post in this thread 3 days ago that attempts to explain it:
https://forum.justgetflux.com/post/13582
If you still have questions after this, then you can ask me. I think I got it all figured out now.
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@TwoCables I still don't get what the two lines are. Is the amount of light sensitivity the darker grey area?
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@AlbertBaer said in f.lux beta (another thread):
@TwoCables I still don't get what the two lines are. Is the amount of light sensitivity the darker grey area?
Yep, that's why the ball is dead-center on the part that shows the nighttime light sensitivity in my example where I show what it looks like if f.lux thinks you've been awake for 16 hours. How did I figure out that this is the nighttime section of the light sensitivity curve? It''s consistent. Truly, it's always there after 16 hours no matter what. Regardless of what my f.lux Location is, regardless of what my Wake Time is, regardless of what my computer's time is and regardless of what my time zone is, f.lux will always put the ball there if it calculates that I have been awake for 16 hours. The same is true for any other amount of time that f.lux thinks I've been awake.
So from this, you can study it by faking your Location, faking your Wake-Time, faking your system time and faking your time zone over and over and you will see how it works. You will see the same things that I did. Like for example, I found that the part where there's no light sensitivity (the thinnest part that's just left of center) is pretty much 6 hours after you wake up, every single time. It doesn't matter what your other settings are.
So, the bigger part is your personal "night", regardless of what time it is, and the smaller part (to the far right, extending into far left) is your personal morning. The thinnest part where the lines intersect is 6 hours after you've been awake (but f.lux simply calculates that by your selected Wake Time).
