Flashing Screen 10.11 El Capitan

justgetflux

@jocamero yes it looks like Apple has fixed the issue and our workaround may be causing the problem. I'm going to post a beta right away to test.

justgetflux

The main build on https://justgetflux.com/ is 36.6 and has the (old) fix.
A reboot may be required to turn off the broken behavior!

mixolyd

@justgetflux running 36.6 on OSX beta 10.11.3. No issues at all with automatic brightness. Seems to be resolved! woohoo

jocamero

@justgetflux Just updated and v36.6 also appears to be working correctly for me. I did the flashlight test without any issues.

mixolyd

Nevemind. I guess I spoke too soon... Flux disables when brightness changes with automatic brightness enabled. It was working fine before not sure what happened. Still on 36.6

Edit: rebooting seems to have resolved the issue. Why is this happening haha

Terence Yeong

Yea I've uninstalled flux until this issue is resolved. Doesn't help that I use an external monitor frequently too.

José Pepe

The only solution I've found so far is to downgrade to version 36.0, as @fluxydude said. The latest version doesn't fix the flashing, I also installed gfxCardStatus only to solve this, but nothing. Every time I went into Movie Mode, it started flashing and never stopped, only downgrading helped.

terryoh

I'm using a Mac Mini 2012 2.5 Ghz, Core I-5. I'm wondering if perhaps a mac mini may not have a light sensor? Any other mac mini folks experiencing this flashing screen?

Steven Lu

I started getting this problem. I have been finding that closing flux and then restarting it tends to make it go away for a few days.

The interesting thing is that it's worked great on El Cap till quite recently.

What gives? :P

lorna

Everyone experiencing this needs to 1. Make sure that 36.6 is installed (you might need to reinstall). If it doesn't fix your problem right away 2. Restart. If that still doesn't fix the problem, please 3. Let us know what your system is like and 4. disable autobrightness.

madra

Strangely, I've never had any problems with f.lux and El Capitán, even with "adjust brightness automatically" turned on. However, last night I let OSX upgrade to 10,11,3 and this morning I'm flickering like a good 'un. So, it seems the latest OSX update has finally broken things for me too!

I see I'm on f.lux 36,5 at the mo. So I'll upgrade and see if that fixes it. I've also disabled "adjust brightness automatically" for now, which does seem to have helped.

lowi0008

I just upgraded to El Capitan 10.11.13 and I am now having screen flashing issues. Installing Flux 36.4 did not fix the issue.

lorna

@lowi0008 what is your machine, have you rebooted? @madra too - have you rebooted? We cannot repeat this here after installing v36.6 and rebooting.

lowi0008

@lorna I thought I had rebooted but apparently had not. The reboot cleared things up. Thanks.

madra

@lorna said:

@lowi0008 what is your machine, have you rebooted? @madra too - have you rebooted? We cannot repeat this here after installing v36.6 and rebooting.

I hadn't rebooted yet either. Seems to be working fine now, after rebooting –even with "adjust brightness automatically" turned on

lorna

@madra great to hear thank you!

Jakub Pinkas

@lorna i just uprade to v36.6 and rebooted like hour ago and no flickering so far!

Thank you, guys for great work!!!

Noway

I reverted back to v36.5 which works fine without flashing on my old 15" MacBook Pro late 2008 Nvidia graphics. v36.6 starts flashing when setting f.lux in Movie mode only. Tried a reboot, but not disable "automatic brightness" and reboot together.

I have this problem too, but only when I enable dark room mode
My macbook is mid-2010, so it doesn't have auto-brightness feature
10.11.3 version is installed on it

And I've found something interesting: it stops flashing when I open flux menu (screenshot)

lpuerto

I had / have this problem also. I installed the 36.6, turned on again auto brightness and rebooted (like two days ago).
I've noticed some flashes from time to time, like for example at booting and if I change the light really really suddenly (i.e. I point my desk light directly to my mac screen, or if I'm in a room and I tilt my computer so the screen looks now somehow to the ceiling lights). Then, it occurs a flashing (just one), so it's is now really unnoticeable.

I can live with it guys! Thanks for the update!

PS/ It's also true that movie and dark room mode don't work properly. They flash or beats all the time, but I don't use those modes. I don't use my computer in a dark room (at the moment) and if I have to use the movie mode I use "disable for this app". Anyhow I encourage you to continue working on a solution for those problems and developing this wonderful app. It's great!