Never EVER install. You will never recover the monitor colors after uninstall
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@herf
I have uninstalled (and then reinstalled flux after reading COUNTLESS advisory threads to do so) several times this year.Even after uninstalling, my screen continued to turn dark orange throughout the day.
Even after recalibrating, it continued to act as if the sun were setting at 8 am, 10 am, 9 am, for 12 months, endlessly.At this point it is getting ridiculous. Flux malfunctioned on my pc, even when the task manager showed no program of flux was "running" and it was absent from my computer's appdata and program files.
Please stop insulting my intelligence. I am not off kilter either. No other program I had on my pc would lower the tint into a dark orange/red/yellow. Cut this out.
Flux just malfunctioned for me, for several months. /discussion
ETA: By the way, that backlight feature does not turn my screen yellow/orange, it only lowers the luminosity. This is getting very frustrating to continue discussing. I kept giving flux the benefit of the doubt and it just didn't work out. It acted weird, messed with my appdata, and continued to run in the background despite not showing up in my task manager. This is so tiresome to keep explaining.
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I am leaving my personal anecdote because I know I cannot be the only person with these issues. The only other threads I found on the flux forum discussing something similar all ended short with no follow up of the user ever solving their problems besides factory reset.
I hope flux checks out the problem, because it was very annoying for me. Trying to blame this on intel's backlight is ridiculous. Lowered backlight does not turn my screen orange/red. Good lord.
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We found an issue in the uninstaller that would leave f.lux running about 10% of the time (related to how we watch for monitor brightness changes). If it failed to uninstall, it would leave flux.exe running until reboot, so it would be visible in Task Manager "details" or "processes".
I'm pushing up 4.66 to the beta track with this new uninstaller. https://justgetflux.com/flux-setup4.exe if you'd like to test.
I'm reasonably sure this new one uninstalls f.lux 100% of the time.
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Had the same problem. i fixed it by turning the night light off under
Settings > Display > NightlightFor some reason f.lux turn this shit on without telling me. after turning that off my problems are fixed
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@lorna I need some help with similar issue. Uninstalled flux, but colours are still messed up.
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@kneetzstopz I am sorry I know this is quite old now, but have you tried the basics like reinstalling your integrated graphics driver for your laptop? Maybe by now you've fixed it, I hope. Sounds like a very strange bug.
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holy cow. 7 years later this issue still persists. after exiting f.lux, colors look washed, if you open a File Explorer window, buttons get washed out unles you enable f.lux and set day time to 4000K or enable night shift
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@Styphoryte said in Never EVER install. You will never recover the monitor colors after uninstall:
@kneetzstopz I am sorry I know this is quite old now, but have you tried the basics like reinstalling your integrated graphics driver for your laptop? Maybe by now you've fixed it, I hope. Sounds like a very strange bug.
reinstalling drivers because a stupid software changes settings that "forgets" to undo on uninstallation seems not right
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@Tungsten_smooth did not work for me. Had to set it to 4000K to get somewhat usable but not identical to situation before installing f.lux. interesting this only affects what is displayed on the monitor. if you capture a screenshot and view the file on a different computer, the image is natural.
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@fckflux thanks for your concern.
The proper way for drivers to work is to avoid remembering settings from an app after it is uninstalled, but some did this several years ago anyway. So as we've documented, the only two fixes are to update the buggy, old drivers (which helps in a lot of ways) or keep f.lux installed with some lesser settings until the driver memorizes these instead.
Once we are uninstalled, it really isn't our code running anymore.
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@herf said in Never EVER install. You will never recover the monitor colors after uninstall:
@fckflux thanks for your concern.
The proper way for drivers to work is to avoid remembering settings from an app after it is uninstalled, but some did this several years ago anyway. So as we've documented, the only two fixes are to update the buggy, old drivers (which helps in a lot of ways) or keep f.lux installed with some lesser settings until the driver memorizes these instead.
Once we are uninstalled, it really isn't our code running anymore.
how is old or buggy this driver running on windows 11 on 2021 hardware?
and yes I did uninstall the driver and reinstalled. somewhere in the system f.lux has done some changes that persist after it's uninstallation. I've tried resetting the color management profile, tried using a different new user, no effect.
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@fckflux Lol, happened to see your reply a little late perhaps. I see your username and that's hilarious, why bother using f.lux anyways man you have a laptop with brightness hotkeys to change your brightness so no need! Also just use Windows night mode or use LightBulb instead for christ sike. Dude's probably still complaining about his washed out color's, sheeeeeeit if necessary reinstall darn Windows! Then simple don't ever reinstall f.lux on that laptop. Not hard.
I stand by F.lux and have been using it for years no problem with AMD & Nvidia GPU's, all kinds of different hardware. But hopefully by now you've already fixed your issue...
What really gets me is when you say "7 years later this issue still persists." I'm uncertain as to what to think about that. Do you mean you've been dealing with this same issue after installing F.lux from 7 years ago? If so dude, maybe you should get a new laptop. LMAO. But If I think what you really meant is that you've seen other threads from people 7 years ago with this same problem then that would obviously make more sense.
