[Win10] Darkroom causes screen to become soild red with dots of black.

Gentz

Hello folks,
I've been using F.lux for a while now (to be precise, since the release of windows 8) and its worked fine.
Then I decided to try out Darkroom, and I got a s solid red screen with black dots and shapes in areas with high contrast.
Ex:
http://s8.postimg.org/8e4n98omd/img_20160110_162558.jpg
http://s8.postimg.org/do9m0j8v9/Screenshot_255.png

Note: The red is eye scorchingly bright.

After 5 minutes of random clicking on the task bar I was able to disable darkroom.

TwoCables

Screenshots don't capture what f.lux is doing - as you can see by your screenshot. So, photos are the only way to go.

It looks to me like you have some sort of setting turned up way too high, like maybe NVIDIA's Digital Vibrance. When f.lux is set to very warm colors or when Darkroom Mode is on, everything looks a thousand times better with Digital Vibrance set to 50%. If you don't have an NVIDIA GPU, then I don't know what the equivalent would be for you, but Digital Vibrance is a color saturation setting.

I use an extremely high Digital Vibrance setting during the day, but I can't use that setting at night because I set f.lux to 800K. If I don't turn down Digital Vibrance (if I don't set it to 50%), then everything is way too washed out and I have a hard time seeing things.

Gentz

Screenshots don't capture what f.lux is doing - as you can see by your screenshot. So, photos are the only way to go.

The first image is a photo from my Phone, I only had the screenshot so you know what I was trying to run.

It looks to me like you have some sort of setting turned up way too high, like maybe NVIDIA's Digital Vibrance. When f.lux is set to very warm colors or when Darkroom Mode is on, everything looks a thousand times better with Digital Vibrance set to 50%. If you don't have an NVIDIA GPU, then I don't know what the equivalent would be for you, but Digital Vibrance is a color saturation setting.

I got AMD. AMD Color Controls is disabled so its not affecting my saturation (that's what AMD calls Digital Vibrance.)
I've tried activating AMD Color Controls to see if it not running is the problem but it disables it self when f.lux runs.

TwoCables

I don't know what to say at this point. I'll have to wait for either Michael or Lorna (they are the f.lux team).

In the meantime, how did you reply like that with the black background and colored text on what I said?

Gentz

I don't know what to say at this point. I'll have to wait for either Michael or Lorna (they are the f.lux team).

Oh well, thanks for ya time.

In the meantime, how did you reply like that with the black background and colored text on what I said?

Add 4 spaces ahead of it...

TwoCables

@Gentz said:

I don't know what to say at this point. I'll have to wait for either Michael or Lorna (they are the f.lux team).

Oh well, thanks for ya time.

In the meantime, how did you reply like that with the black background and colored text on what I said?

Add 4 spaces ahead of it...

test

You must be on some kind of a mobile device. It's strange how it colorizes portions of it.

Gentz

Theirs quotes? Derp...

I'm on my PC. No mobile here :).

Try this without the dots:
. . . . .test

TwoCables

@Gentz said:

Theirs quotes? Derp...

I'm on my PC. No mobile here :).

Try this without the dots:
. . . . .test

Derp? Dude... please don't do that. I'm obviously aware of the Quotes. I'm just trying to ask how you're doing that. You explained it, I tried it, but it's not working for me - and then you go "There's quotes? Derp..." That's not funny; it just seems kinda rude to me. Like what, am I stupid now? It's like, I'm sorry for asking.

Tungsten_smooth

@TwoCables Yeah, that's a bit rediculous.

this is a quote (of myself) but testing the code like section...

 (FIVE spaces) just trying because you said four is not doing it, I will do four spaces, and one more for the start of whatever this formatting is.

Seriously, what the hell is this? Also, four spaces works just fine for me, but I don't understand the reasoning for select colored words, seems really creepy.

TwoCables

Actually, it can be kind of fun:

Is not do and for of this is! It makes perfect sense.

Or wait,

Just trying because you said four doing it, I will four spaces, one more the start whatever formatting.

Edit: Ok I see now that the spaces go after the '>' symbol. It would have been nice of you to simply say that, Gentz instead of being a jerk with "There's quotes? Derp..."

Anyway, it looks like some sort of 'code' formatting to me.

TwoCables

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TwoCables

@Tungsten_smooth said:

Seriously, what the hell is this?  Also, four spaces works just fine for me, but I don't understand the reasoning for select colored words, seems really creepy.

We should do this exclusively on Halloween. It would creep everyone out.

Edit: It's for posting code.

Tungsten_smooth

@TwoCables hmmm well I know a bit of debian code, I wonder if it likes that

sudo apt-get install xflux

Tungsten_smooth

@Gentz Hey, turn down the contrast setting on your monitor to 40 and set brightness to 75. Let me know the results.

TwoCables

Here's some CSS code I wrote for the Firefox Add-ons Manager page, just to show you what I'm talking about. Notice the color-coding:

@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);

@-moz-document url("about:addons") {
	
.category[selected] {
	  padding-inline-start: 15px;
    border-inline-start: solid 0px var(--in-content-border-highlight);
}
.sorter[checkState="1"],
.sorter[checkState="2"] {
	  background-color: #EDF1F7;
	  box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px transparent inset;
}
#header-utils-btn:active:hover:not([disabled="true"]),
#header-utils-btn[open="true"] {
	  background-color: #D7E0EC;
}
.header-button:hover:not([disabled="true"]),
#header-utils-btn:hover:not([disabled="true"]) {
	  background-color: #D7E0EC;
}
.addon[selected] {
	  background-color: #C6D3E5 !important;
    padding-inline-start: 5px;
    border-inline-start: 0px;
}
.addon {
    padding-inline-start: 5px;
    border-inline-start: 0px;
}
.addon:hover {
    background-color: #F3F6F9;
}
:root {
    --in-content-box-background-hover: #DCE4EF;
	  --in-content-box-background-active: #CBD7E7;
}

}

The color coding isn't quite perfect, but it's still very good. This forum platform has just impressed the pants off of me.

Tungsten_smooth

@TwoCables Cool, I like it. Also I don't need the quote symbol before the extra spaces.

TwoCables

@Tungsten_smooth said:

@TwoCables Cool, I like it. Also I don't need the quote symbol before the extra spaces.

Oh wow

lol It looks like a ransom note when it's not code.

TwoCables

OMG I just noticed a funny Ghostbusters reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul

Do you see it? lol

Oh wait, you gotta to go this page: https://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul

To give you an idea of how good this is, here's what I see in Firefox when I'm working with CSS code (I use the Dark Theme in Firefox's Inspector, which isn't the default):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/udxq4glwozm7k4v/CodeComparisonForf.luxForum.png?raw=1

Gentz

@TwoCables said:

@Gentz said:

Theirs quotes? Derp...

I'm on my PC. No mobile here :).

Try this without the dots:
. . . . .test

Derp? Dude... please don't do that. I'm obviously aware of the Quotes. I'm just trying to ask how you're doing that. You explained it, I tried it, but it's not working for me - and then you go "There's quotes? Derp..." That's not funny; it just seems kinda rude to me. Like what, am I stupid now? It's like, I'm sorry for asking.

You sir misunderstood me. I never knew their was quotes which is why I used the code formatting. When I discovered that I failed to read the button which says 'quote' I relized how stupid I was.

I'm sorry I offended you, but I wasn't saying your stupid, I was saying I'm stupid...

Gentz

@Tungsten_smooth said:

@Gentz Hey, turn down the contrast setting on your monitor to 40 and set brightness to 75. Let me know the results.

Set brightness from 25 to 75, and set contrast from 50 to 40 and now the reds brighter and their is slightly more black (like 10 extra pixels).
So I took my contrasts to 100 and the pixels all disappeared. Dropped it to zero and I could make out like 10 words and that's all.
Reverted back to my previous settings.