Single Monitor Restriction for a Dual Monitor Setup
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Is it possible to restrict f.lux to run on only one monitor of a dual monitor setup? Essentially, I use my primary display as my television and my laptop screen as my secondary source. I would like for f.lux to ignore my primary and only run on the secondary, or vice-versa if necessary, is this possible?
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Not currently - do you always use it this way, or just sometimes?
We might be able to do a permanent disable for one screen, but making the interface easy to do it on the fly would be more challenging!
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Well, pretty much always. I wouldn't want f.lux to adjust my TV's settings as it's usually displaying some sort of video, but it would nice to have f.lux active on the laptop screen, dimming it at the appropriate levels.
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It's fine if you prefer f.lux to be off for proper colors, I'm not trying to sway you, but have you tried "movie mode"?
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We are seeking to do similarly, use f.lux on a laptop that is running Uniview software for astronomy shows in a Geodome, the laptop dimmed in dark room mode, whereas the external monitor (Gedome) is not affected by the f.lux dimming.
A f.lux feature to allow separate control for laptop and external monitor would be ideal.
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I came here to ask the opposite question, but it may be able to help you out. I am using a Triple Monitor Setup and f.lux only runs on Monitors 1 and 2.
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Could you share your configuration for the triple monitor system, are there special hardware components? We are feeding our external monitor via HDMI on a PC running Windows 8, wondering if my problem is hardware limited.
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Dermuth, the two monitors that are working with f.lux are connected directly to my video card. The one monitor that is not running f.lux is using a UV Plus+19 DVI to USB adapter. I am running windows 8.1
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F.lux does not work over USB. The device is just very hard to support or there is no way to make it work.
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This would be an amazing feature and have been waiting for it to be implemented, often I am playing a game on one monitor and have the web and other windows open on the left.
I want flux to simmer the windows but not the game on the other monitor.
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This is the exact function that I was attempting to acquire when I downloaded f.lux. I use two monitors. I game on one and the other has webpages or sometimes iTunes (which is blindingly white)
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I would also like this feature if it is feasible. I have one monitor that I would like to be true color and the other three to be tinted with flux.
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I'd also love this feature, for the same reason mentioned several times now: I'm using an external monitor for watching media and would like to retain the original colours on that, but want to continue using f.lux normally on the screen I'm working on.
Signed up just to add my voice to the thread. (:
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Thanks for the feature requests. It'd be a nice addition to have per monitor settings.
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Would also love to see this feature for the same reasons as above. I usually work on both monitors and it's great it's on both, but steaming games or playing media on the second screen becomes hard to see sometimes when trying to work on my first screen with f.lux enabled. This program is great btw, I don't wear my optics anymore.
Thanks!
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Is there anyone here who would say you really need "per screen settings" and not actually "settings per app"?
The examples so far (video/gaming/astronomy!) apps are full screen on one display and if we could disable for that display when the app is active, it would be solved?
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I often use TV as a second screen while working on something else on my laptop but to compensate for my IPTV's provider's device's odd color settings (it's not possible to change them) I have my TV's color balance set to somewhat red-ish values so when the f.lux kicks in it's just way too much red. Adjusting my TV's settings whenever I switch between IPTV and laptop would be too tedious so I use the laptop in the movie mode which, well, defeats the purpose of the f.lux when I use the laptop at the same time. In most cases I watch some video on the TV (say BBC iPlayer in Chrome tab) and do something else (say typing some text in ShareLaTeX in another Chrome window) so I don't really need "per screen settings" if it would be possible to set "per window settings" because in the most common case the app would be Chrome on both screens. :/
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I would like to see both per screen and settings per app. It would be cool to have some sort of detection settings as well that detects when programs go into some sort of fullscreen mode and then flux will automatically disable, then Flux will ask, or you can right click the icon and add an exclusion for that app. Because most people who will fullscreen their applications will want the proper colour range. For example, say I fullscreen a chrome window, I'd probably want to keep Flux enabled.
But hey, if thats too complicated, or nobody wants that, I think per screen and per app would work fine.
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I would really like it to be per screen. I've scoured the net looking for an app that will dim one or the other but not both.
I have a laptop hooked up to the TV via hdmi, so we turn all the lights off, settle down to watch a film on the TV but the laptop screen is sat there glaring away on the side.
We use flux on the wifes system which is a standalone and its a great util but can't use it on mine or the film we're watching goes dark, yes we can turn it off but then the laptop is bright.
To be able to dim the laptop but not the TV would be awesome & yes we use the laptop to play stuff just about every night
Many thanks in advance
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This feature would be incredibly useful to me as well. My second monitor is a Cintiq, which I exclusively use for digital art & playing video.
