thanks all for the patience - beta 5 fixes the issue and f.lux works with automatic brightness again

looks like beta 5 fixes this bug and things work with automatic brightness again.

Figured out the problem. One of my menubar programs (menumeters) was not working right and that caused all of the menubar icons to fail. hope this helps someone else having this problem.

@ned_arb got it, yes we have some fixes coming for these machines, but at least some of the Adreno/Qualcomm devices have no working support for external monitors

@bluepenguin It works and it's so much better now!
Thank you.

@avi11 We are working on some technically tricky updates that require more testing than normal. Will push some of this to beta soon.

@digiangel234 yes this is a lot of exclusions, I wonder if it's messing up. I will tell you that "forgetting I excluded an app" has often been our #1 support issue - people don't understand that they have set it up, so that is why the notification exists this way. It should probably be more subtle anyway.

We are trying to avoid annoying people & not ever doing this more than once for the same app, but we will add a checkbox to prevent it entirely, for people who actually understand how disabling works.

@illegalnumbers yes this is a preview.

When you switch tabs, you are adjusting what the screen will look like in the future, not right now. If you want to adjust what the screen looks like right now, you don't have to change tabs, they will change automatically throughout the day and all you have to do is move the slider.

@ALIENQuake you would need to add it to the registry (the particulars depend on whether you are using our normal version or corporate) - try RegShot or one of the tools that will find the right keys for your version?

@PerryLi if you dim the screen a lot, this should be just fine for sleep.

f.lux's defaults are set to do a lot more for people with big bright screens (like desktops).

@akpool we agree - but are out of date with dev tools, and the virtual version works OK (we are not cpu intensive). Hope we can address this in the future.

Right now we only change the app mode and leave the system setting alone - this is because in Windows 10, the taskbar was kind of glaringly white with the day mode set. We will make a note to add an option to change both together also.

Hey Xilef, I'm interested on this server you created. I would like to integrate my tuya bulb on f.lux. Can you share how you did it?