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paranoos

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From: thornhill.on.ca

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 442

[solved] flashplugin multilib acting weird...

I was excited to see an updated Flash Plugin for 64bit installations on the repos today. I installed it, loaded up YouTube in Firefox and was somewhat dismayed...

- The first thing I noticed is the fonts look different. No big deal, I can live with that.
- When I right-click on YouTube videos, the popup menu no longer looks like my GTK theme. Do I need to set up the theme separately for lib32-gtk? I can't find any config files for it.
- However, the major issue is on some YouTube videos (any video that has the progressbar slider always visible... the videos where the progressbar slides away into a thin bar are working ok). I can't click any of the buttons, which means I can't pause, I can't skip forward on the progressbar, I can't enable fullscreen. Sometimes if I click repeatedly it will work.

Is anyone else having these issues?

Tested on:
multilib flashplugin 10.1.82.76-1
multilib flashplugin 10.1.82.76-3

Downgrading to the native 64bit flashplugin 10.0.45.2-1 gets things working normally again.

Last edited by paranoos (2010-08-28 06:18:01)

grimi

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Registered: 2009-12-27

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Re: [solved] flashplugin multilib acting weird...

You need this for themes in lib32 environment:
http://pastebin.com/D1iyDuxr

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Nepherte

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From: Singapore

Registered: 2008-09-09

Posts: 427

Re: [solved] flashplugin multilib acting weird...

I experience the same behavior as paranoos. Installing lib32-gtk-engines does not resolve the problem.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: [solved] flashplugin multilib acting weird...

be sure that you don't have anything from aur or from the older community packages.

pacman -Qm

@paranoos do you have compiz?

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paranoos

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From: thornhill.on.ca

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 442

Re: [solved] flashplugin multilib acting weird...

Thanks for the pkgbuild, grimi. lib32-gtk-engines fixes some of the cosmetic issues I was having. However, the font still looks different. Again, not a big deal.

The major issue of buttons being unclickable on some YouTube videos still remains.

I don't have compiz. (It's a window manager, right? I use OpenBox.)

pacman -Qm returns:
joyutils 1.2.15-2
lib32-gtk-engines 2.20.1-1
libvorbis-aotuv b5.7-2
mpdscribble-git 20100413-1
pylast 0.4.24-1
scrobblethis 0.4.7-1

I have discovered a workaround that helps with this issue sometimes; if you right-click on the video then double-click on the button you want.

paranoos

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From: thornhill.on.ca

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 442

Re: [solved] flashplugin multilib acting weird...

Google is our friend

I discovered a solution here: http://binbashblog.blogspot.com/2010/07 … be-in.html

Edit /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer as root:
sudo vi /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer

Add this before the last line:
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1

Restart Firefox and it should work. Please note that I added this export command to my .zshrc, logged out and back in, and it did NOT work. The line must be added to the npviewer file.

Hope this helps. Unfortunately, this fix will be reverted when you upgrade nspluginwrapper. Should we file a bug to have this fix included in the next update?

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: [solved] flashplugin multilib acting weird...

nspluginwrapper 1.3.0-3 has that workaround included

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paranoos

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From: thornhill.on.ca

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 442

Re: [solved] flashplugin multilib acting weird...

Awesome, thanks. Flagging this as solved.