(DUPLICATE, DO NOT COMMENT) Flash not responding to mouse clicks with Xgl/Compiz

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Are you using the Adobe flash player or the Gnash player?

I use Adobe flash player, package: flashplugin-nonfree, 9.0.48.0ubuntu10.

Problem disappeared for me after upgrading flashplugin-nonfree to 9.0.48.0ubuntu11. So, if nobody else has this issue, it can be closed.

I've been noticing this quite a bit lately with the latest karmic alpha and FF3.5. Very annoying little bug that only affects certain sites (like YouTube), but seems to be 100% recreatable on those sites.

Personally I am no longer suffering from this, using firefox 3.7 and flash 10.0.32.18. I'm on the same system I was using when I reported the bug (not using XGL, of course, as it was replaced long ago by aiglx).

Same happens for me with a fresh install of Ubuntu Karmic Koala. I have an Intel 4500MHD card, with flash 10.0.32.18ubuntu1.

I have the problem as well, mostly on youtube

Same happens to me on Ubuntu Karmic alpha 6 (64bit) with Firefox 3.5 and flash 10.0.32.18

Is this with the 64-bit flash alpha from adobe's website or with flash from ubuntu? If it is the one from Ubuntu this is probably an nspluginwrapper bug.

It's flash in the ubuntu repo's using nspluginwrapper, at least for me anyway. I've never installed the 64bit alpha direct from Adobe.

Yes... same as Darren - this is with the flash in the repos.

I'm not so sure nspluginwrapper is to blame here: I'm running 64-bit flash from labs.adobe.com ( version 10,0,32,18 ), and see this problem in browsers (Opera 10.00) that does not use nspluginwrapper at all.

Not nspluginwrapper, I think. Same problem on 32bit Karmic. Goes away when I switch from compiz to metacity.

I'm seeing this on Pandora and YouTube on Karmic Koala 9.10 x64 with Firefox 3.5.3 and Flash 10.0.0 r32. I last updated my system on Monday, 21 September.

Same here on my updated Karmic amd64: with compiz clicking is a serious problem, without compiz works as it should.

Same here on my updated Karmic amd64: with compiz enabled clicking is a serious problem, but without compiz enabled it works good

Marking that this also affects Firefox due to the comments above from users who aren't using nspluginwrapper.
Possibly-related Mozilla bugs:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477058
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463169
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480584

Also marking the related Chrome bug. It seems to come up more for users of Chrome than it has for Firefox users, but it's the same symptoms. It makes me wonder whether it's related to out of process plugins (which would implicate nspluginwrapper but not plain Firefox as my previous comment contradicts).

I can confirm the same bug on amd64 karmic beta running on nvidia 9600GT with compiz (normal profile). The bug is 100% reproducible in firefox 3.5 and chromium 4.0.213.1. Nothing special installed.

I am using Karmic AMD64, with compiz turned on. The mouse clicking problem can be reproduced on Chromium but not on Firefox. When i turned compiz off, the bug is not reproducible on either browser. I am using the 64bit flash plugin from adobe.

I'm seeing this on both chromium and firefox with compiz on; works fine with it off.

This is flash+nspluginwrapper on 64bit.

ii nspluginwrappe 1.2.2-0ubuntu6 A wrapper to run Netscape plugins on other a
ii compiz 1:0.8.3+git200 OpenGL window and compositing manager

Dave

I also run fully updated Karmic and have this problem with firefox and the flashplugin-nonfree package from the repos.
Without compiz it works well - so maybe it is a bug in compiz?
Should we assign the compiz package?

I'm starting to notice this on Debian SID with arora but interestingly enough, not Firefox. The pseudo-workaround to click on the flash, drag the mouse off, and then click back on the flash again works most of the time.

Oh, and one more thing. On both Karmic and SID I am using fluxbox, so compiz is ruled out. I don't think Arora uses the ndsplugin.

Using debian SID and fluxbox on an amd64 with the flash plugin from adobe I have the problem on several flash sites (including for instance, http://sigpac.mapa.es/fega/visor/ or youtube), no matter which browser I use (I have tested firefox 3.5.3, iceweasel, epiphany, opera and chrome). If I switch to kde then the problem is gone...

I had the same problem with karmic beta 64, although i could still pause with the spacebar and go to fullscreen with the F key. I just uninstalled the flashplugin-installer in synaptic and downloaded the 64bit alpha plugin from adobe, and then put it into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
It's working fine now.

<AOL>Me Too</AOL>

This happens to me too, The system was a fresh install at Alpha6, and it's never worked.. obviously updated as the updates land, but nothing non-standard installed. Turning off compiz seems to fix it, but curiously it still works after I turn compiz back on again!

I just did a fresh install of Karmic Beta and also see this issue.

Some additional information: Normally when hovering over clickable areas in flash a "hand with finger" pointer is shown. When (and only when) "desktop effects" are enabled pushing down and holding down the mouse-button changes this pointer into a regular arrow. Any mouseover highlight on the button is lost as the pointer changes. Somehow it seems compiz steals focus from the flashplayer when the button is pushed.

I had the same problem, i have ubuntu karmic amd64. In firefox the problem did not occured, but in opera qt4 yes. When i switched my qt4-config to oxygen the problem with flash dissapeared.

correction yesterday it was working after switching to oxygen, today it no longer works.

I can reproduce this bug on karmic x64 with compiz turned on. I turned it off now and the problem disappears.

I've found if I right click to bring up the flash menu, then double click where I want it sees the click.

Well it seems to depend a little big on what flash applications I'm running, when I'm running compiz, almost no videos work in firefox or chrome, but suprisingly they did work in Opera 10.0, but not all flash applications worked in opera. With compiz turned off, everything seemed to work.

Hope this bug will be fixed soon

Yep, same prob here with compiz. Both on Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome. Running 64 bit Koala.

Changing to beta version of flash for 64 bit didn't help.

Same problem here with Ubuntu Karmic 64 + Compiz + Chromium.
I tried the flashplugin-nonfree from the repos and the flashplugin 64bit for Linux from Adobe's site but I still can't click on flash content. Actually if I click lots of times and right click a few times too it will work (sometimes).
My chromium version is 4.0.233.0 (Ubuntu build 30813), kernel: 2.6.31-11-generic, compiz 0.8.4, NVIDIA Driver Version: 185.18.36 on 8600 M GT.

This bug (bug 141494) is a _duplicate_ report. Like the warning box right above the “Add comment” box says, any comments you post here are _useless_, no matter how many confused users seem to have ignored the warning before you.

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