Comment 306 for bug 410407

The latest flashplayer from labs.adobe.com seems to work perfectly. No
lags with Youtube videos when hovering the mouse to show the player
position bar in fullscreen.

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Jonathan Riddell <email address hidden> wrote:
> Still in karmic-proposed unapproved queue, awaiting approval from
> ubuntu-sru
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> Adobe Flash Player does not respond to mouse clicks [READ DESCRIPTION]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410407
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> Status in Chromium Browser: New
> Status in Compiz: Invalid
> Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Invalid
> Status in Opera Browser: Invalid
> Status in “adobe-flashplugin” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “epiphany-browser” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “ia32-libs” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “nspluginwrapper” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “adobe-flashplugin” source package in Lucid: Won't Fix
> Status in “epiphany-browser” source package in Lucid: Invalid
> Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” source package in Lucid: Won't Fix
> Status in “gtk+2.0” source package in Lucid: Won't Fix
> Status in “ia32-libs” source package in Lucid: Won't Fix
> Status in “nspluginwrapper” source package in Lucid: Fix Released
> Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Debian: New
> Status in “nspluginwrapper” package in Fedora: Unknown
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> Bug description:
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> So here the bug and workarounds.
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> For example on youtube, whilst it recognises my mouse moving over various buttons, actual mouse clicks are not recognised. I can navigate using 'tab' but this is very painful. I can also right click. The problem doesn't occur with other flash players, e.g. swfdec-mozilla.
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> WORKAROUND 1: Disable compiz
> WORKAROUND 2: Remove flashplugin-nonfree / flashplugin-installer and install from adobe
> WORKAROUND 3: Open a terminal and enter:
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> gksudo gedit /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer
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> Then add: export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 before the last line of text
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> Note: Chrome & Chromium are now working fine without workaround
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> These workaround's have been verified to work for some users. We don't need verification of whether or not they work for you.
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> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Fri Aug  7 19:22:11 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: flashplugin-installer 10.0.22.87ubuntu2
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
> SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic x86_64
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