Version 3 to 4 Upgrade
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@herf said in Version 3 to 4 Upgrade:
The major change in how v4 handles color can be adjusted this way:
Options > Use display data for better color accuracyThis setting makes f.lux do the right thing with wide-gamut displays and laptops that looked rather "green" in v3, but you can turn it off and it should look like the old version.
If it looks a lot better when you turn it off, send us a note and we can send you a test app to see what's going on.
3200k, monitor AOC i2369v, nvidia 385.69
v3 - warm orange, ok
v4 - with Use display data for better color accuracy on - almost the same orange, little more white, not exactly what I need
v4 - with Use display data for better color accuracy off - much more greeny, crap -
Let me be sure I understand: This new version bases its lighting on what it understands are your bedtime and waking time? Not on the sun's position?
If so, is there any way to revert to the previous behaviour? Unfortunately, due to my work, my bedtime often varies by several hours, and I'd rather not have to keep manually adjusting F.lux.
While I deeply appreciate all your work on F.lux, as usual, I can't help getting the feeling that it may be getting what we in the software business call "feature-itis"—having more and more features just for the sake of, you know, having more features.
What's more, some of these options are described in ways that many non-technical people (and/or people who are new to it) would find vague or confusing. It's very important to try to look at your options like you were seeing them for the first time. (This is why people usually hire tech writers, BTW—because it's often very hard, or impossible, for engineers to imagine they don't already understand their apps.)
Finally, did you know that—in Google Chrome, at least—your forum edit box scrolls off the bottom of the screen? Up to a point, you can keep moving the scrollbar to see what you're typing, then looking at the Preview box, then playing with the Preview's scrollbar... It's probably not what you had in mind. Cheers, A.
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@Ander It does have a more complicated schedule that's aware of differences in people, and yes, you can choose the "classic f.lux" preset to have the software operate like the previous version.
As we said in the update notes, we think there's a good chance that the previous version was not doing a good job reducing light levels enough to avoid significant sleep disruption. So rather than ask you to dim all your lights at 5PM in the winter, this version tries to split the difference...a more moderate setting at sundown, and a more intense change before bed.
Our goal with the software is to begin to fix a major problem we think is happening with all electric lighting and screens, and so we want it to serve the role of educating people about these problems and how they might think about them.
So we think we have made the easy things easy - a big slider you can move to look the way you like, and some presets. And after that if you're happy you don't need to read any more.
But there is very deliberately some confusing text that explains how your screen is programming your circadian clock, and this is not easy, but we think it is important, and that's why we did it, anyway.
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I'm missing a little feature: show information about how many time left for sunset/sunrise when i rest the mouse cursor over the tray icon. Now it just says "f.lux", even in classic mode. Thanks in advance and sorry for my awful english!
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@Bushido thanks! I missed this! Hope it will be back soon in a future version.
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@lorna hey!
i'm having an issue where my slider and the Custom Colors are grayed out...
am I doing something wrong?!
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@darienlake I will send you a private message with more information directly
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I just went through and tested most of the new features in the upgrade. I just wanted to pass along that I really like the idea of the vignette mode, however, it fails on my dual-monitor workstation. It is only working on monitor #1.
I have two additional dual-monitor workstations at home that I have NOT checked yet, but wanted to pass this along sooner rather than later. Thanks for a great product.
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Hi) Im using the XWidget, and since the new upgrade is installed, area around the widgets is brighter. How to fix that. In old version everythink was fine.
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@Taras-Gryshko likely that everything will be better after you reboot. we emulate some effects on the GPU until then.
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@herf Yes it is) Tooday everythink is ok)
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I think "disable for fullscreen" should ignore windows lock screen (after win+L).
First, because then room with display highlights with blue color.
Second, because after logon I see transition (I like slow transition, but not here).
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@Nahtanoj-Tarp-Aicrag I agree with the lack of 1-click access to Movie Mode. Possibly the most inconvenient change was hiding it in a sub-menu with no way of bringing it back as a main option. Maybe include a way to favorite colors and effects to make them show up when you right-click?
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i hate this new version of the app i liked how simple the older version was version 4.55 is really hard to use just like how verizon just recently forced me to update my verizon mobile cause they dropped support for version 10 which was better and easier to use
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@Nahtanoj-Tarp-Aicrag said in Version 3 to 4 Upgrade:
One thing i don't like is the lack of 1-click access (or hotkey) to my most commonly used options
I agree to this opinion. I miss the formerly 1-click-access to "Disable until sunrise". Now I have move the mouse cursor through the tiny menu. Very, very annoying for me, so I downgrade to the latest version with this 1-click-access.
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Just press Alt+End.
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@TwoCables said in Version 3 to 4 Upgrade:
Just press Alt+End.
Unfortunately shortcuts are no solution for me. I'm a human. My mind can only store 284 shortcuts. The memory for shortcuts in my mind is already full from all the other programs. Now only simple mouse clicks are useful.
The new features in v4 are absolutely useless for me. Therefore I went back to v3. -
@Benuzar said in Version 3 to 4 Upgrade:
@TwoCables said in Version 3 to 4 Upgrade:
Just press Alt+End.
Unfortunately shortcuts are no solution for me. I'm a human. My mind can only store 284 shortcuts. The memory for shortcuts in my mind is already full from all the other programs. Now only simple mouse clicks are useful.
The new features in v4 are absolutely useless for me. Therefore I went back to v3.lol ok
