luni, 18 ianuarie 2010

Short but sweet

Flash... I think most people will agree that it basically sucks (cpu cycles that is), but it's a necessary evil. It offers developers a quick way of adding interactivity to their sites. Unfortunately, that interactivity isn't exactly currently supported under optimum conditions with the 64bit variants of Ubuntu: aka da' clicking don't work, dawg!

Now you could disable Compiz, and that would work just fine, but let's be honest, you don't want to do that. You could uninstall the flashplugin packages and install from Adobe, but you don't want to do that either.

What you want to do is open up a terminal and:
sudo gedit /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer
And then add the line: export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 before the last line of text.

And it's done. Who knew that bug reporting forums actually had useful stuff in them?
[via Launchpad]