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    • John Smith123
      John Smith123 last edited by John Smith123

      New beta feedback and suggestions:

      I am a longtime user of f.lux. For 5 years I have waited to just be able to set it to go warm at 9pm every day--I don't care about the sun. My workaround had been to set my location to the Galapagos or a point on the equator in the Pacific Ocean (I am really on the East coast), and "disable till sunrise" every morning. Every few months I come to the website or forum to see if there is an update where I can just set the time to go warm.

      With this new version, I am now able to achieve a fixed warming time indirectly through the setting of the "is when I get up" time. But it still would be simpler and more direct if you just let users set their warm time directly.

      A bug in the program: when I adjust the wake up time, there is a jump in the color profile at 10:00am.

      I don't understand the new crossing quasi-sine curves in the display, and why those curves have a midday plateau. They don't correspond to sunrise and sunset--do they have a meaning, or are they just decoration?
      I find myself having to adjust the brightness of my laptop manually when working during bedtime. I set it to ember to remove almost all blue, but I have to increase brightness a notch--maybe there is a way to have brighter ember.

      Instead of sliders, can you display the fluxometer graphic right in the app and let the user manipulate red, green, and blue light levels by finger touch and drag or mouse pointer click and drag? After all, screen "warmth" is really a canned construct of different combinations of RGB intensities. A simpler solution to have more control is to have three separate sliders--one for red, green, and blue.

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            disqQ last edited by

            How am i supposed to disable f.lux for a game, which runs at fullscreen?

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            • TwoCables
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              I think something might be broken in version 4.18 compared to 4.17: dimming is no longer performed when I drop the color temperature. So now temperatures such as 800K look washed out. I know how to handle this due to f.lux v3, but I am worried this might be unintended.

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                herf @TwoCables last edited by

                @TwoCables I made it do a little less dimming.

                We need to shift the presets around to account for the dimming, or it will be a real shock for people. But for now I turned it down a little bit. We'll get it sorted with some better presets in a day or two.

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                • TwoCables
                  TwoCables @herf last edited by

                  @herf said in f.lux beta discussion:

                  @TwoCables I made it do a little less dimming.

                  We need to shift the presets around to account for the dimming, or it will be a real shock for people. But for now I turned it down a little bit. We'll get it sorted with some better presets in a day or two.

                  Oh ok good. It's not me. :) Thank you.

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                  • herf
                    herf @disqQ last edited by

                    @disqQ you could probably race alt-tabbing back to the "open" f.lux window (but it auto-hides after a few seconds). We will make this easier.

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                    • herf
                      herf @John Smith123 last edited by

                      @John-Smith123 if you download again you should get one that dims less. We are trying to find the balance where people might use less extreme colors and instead dim a little more (sitting in a dark room before bed is one of these cases).

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                      • herf
                        herf @John Smith123 last edited by lorna

                        @John-Smith123 the graph is your sensitivity to light over time, so in the morning light makes your internal clock "earlier" and at night it makes you "later". We will do some more UI to explain this, but we think it is important that we start explaining how these systems are working in the body.

                        Regarding timing: there is a "more fixed" schedule in this version, but we know for certain that people are much more sensitive to light in the winter, so the seasonal component of f.lux isn't likely to go away - your body is definitely not ignoring it. But you can just set the sunset setting the same as daylight or try out the "Working Late" preset.

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                        • TwoCables
                          TwoCables last edited by TwoCables

                          Just realize everyone that the reduced dimming (less dimming) reduces contrast at 1200K and warmer. It also reduces contrast of the color presets like Blue Sky, Emerald City, etc.

                          Edit: Nevermind. I remembered that it was because I prefer to use NVIDIA Digital Vibrance in the NVIDIA Control Panel. ha! Oops. I forgot. Setting it back to 50% makes it normal again just as I remember doing with f.lux v3. :)

                          I apologize for any confusion everyone!

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                                disqQ @herf last edited by

                                @herf Tried that but didn't succeed. Anyways, glad to know it'll be easier/possible in the near future.

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                                  3RfNEEMgECo last edited by

                                  This works perfectly with the 8.1 displylink driver until a reboot, at which point instead of a 'yellowish' hue, the color turns greenish. That is until the usb monitor is unplugged, then the color on the main monitor immediately reverts back to yellow, BUT! replugging the usb monitor back in then tints both monitors green again =/

                                  With the 8.2 DL driver and it's regedit, the usb monitor is not affected by flux at all.

                                  The usb monitor in question is an AOC E1659FWUX.

                                  Great job folks! Keep up the good work.

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                                  • TwoCables
                                    TwoCables last edited by TwoCables

                                    For anyone who has a mouse cursor that isn't being colored by f.lux, let me know and I can help you. This isn't unique to the Beta f.lux for Windows, it's just Windows. That's all.

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                                    • lorna
                                      lorna @TwoCables last edited by

                                      @TwoCables oh gosh thank you for the reminder!

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                                      • TwoCables
                                        TwoCables @lorna last edited by TwoCables

                                        @lorna said in f.lux beta discussion:

                                        @TwoCables oh gosh thank you for the reminder!

                                        You're welcome! It just hit me because I'm finally using the new f.lux in my unique way (800K on demand) and instantly realized this is probably the perfect opportunity to inform the majority of the f.lux for Windows users!

                                        By the way, the ease of being able to choose 800K whenever I want and pretty much as fast as I want is almost like a dream. This is great!

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                                          Neobond last edited by

                                          Hi Guys,

                                          Love the app.. I am on dual 27" screens. Here's my feature request that ties in with "disable for <appname>" on dual monitor setups, only have the active screen disable blue light for that app. I used it last night for VLC, but my second monitor lit up like the daytime, so while it is a great feature, it could do with multi-mon support with the disabling by app setting :)

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                                          • herf
                                            herf @Neobond last edited by

                                            @Neobond thank you - this is on our list (and a big request for movie watching)!

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