f.lux darkroom mode flickers?
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@rodneysprague Running 10.11.4 and f.lux v36.6 on a much older machine than yours ;)
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Yes, same with my wife's machine and after playing with it for a while with no success I think it is a bug. Lets hope the developers are reading this. This is a great app and I hope it will be fully functional soon for all you night owls and dark theme affectionado's.
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Hi all,
I just got Dark Room mode working without flicker following instructions in this Sticky Thread, disabling automatic brightness and then rebooting the computer. As a side note, I'm using a three screen setup with integrated retina display and two external monitors.
I'm running a MBP retina Mid-2012 with El Capitan 10.11.2 and f.lux 36.6.
I did a test before with gfxCardStatus, for which i've had to disconnect the monitors, and just switching the graphics card mode (with automatic brightness still on) fixed the issue, so if anyone with no external monitors wants to give it a try may solve the problem.
Hope this helps!
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@cantax Unfortunately, since my lappy doesn't have automatic brightness control, I don't think this fix will work for me.
Boo!
But I'm glad you were able to find a solution! :)
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@Aron-Levy Mine's working! No guarantees it will work for everybody but here's an as accurate as I can think of recollection of everything I did.
TL;DR: try PRAM reset and at least a couple reboots.
I did try turning off the auto brightness off already but just for the lulz I turned it on again, turned it off, rebooted. Still flickering.
I took @rodneysprague 's advice and tried to debug the issue by just systematically killing processes. I got through almost everything non-essential and was still seeing the issue.
-rebooted and got everything running back to my normal state of apps and what not.
-I can't imagine how PRAM would be tied into this at all but figured, what the hell right?
-Full reboot, pram reset, then tried it and voila!
I have no idea if PRAM reset worked the magic, or maybe just going through a couple reboots shook the dust out. Either way it's up and running just fine now :)
Now I just need to switch my dark themes for terminal, atom and the menu bar and dock to light when i turn on the Darkroom mode or they're all a pretty bright white. Whenever I'm capable of such a thing, I'd love to make an Alfred workflow (or something along those lines) that can activate Darkroom, switch my atom to a light theme, my terminal to a light theme, and my OSX menu bar and dock to the light theme so they mesh better with darkroom. I prefer to use darker themes all day, but only the more standard light themes translate well to darkroom. I'm a student developer at the moment but I'd love that to be an outside of work/class project whenever I've attained the knowledge to work on it.
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please fix this soon! i'm need it alot! thanks!
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@Ben-Adamski how do i PRAM reset?
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Disabled Automatically adjust brightness and did a restart and it works great!!
10.11.4 Beta (15E64a)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
2.9 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB -
@Ben-Adamski I was hoping to be able to try both the sticky notes method and the PRAM reset on my wifes MBP but i have not had an opportunity as she always has some app running that cant be quit or in the middle of some project. So asap I will try both and get back with results. Perhaps it's a graphics card issue after all?
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Just tried above method on my wife's 2011 MBP and it works for hers as well.