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Can't Click Play/Pause in Flash (Youtube etc) on Ubuntu?

Sun, 11/22/2009 - 14:58 — sham
If you can't click buttons etc on flash videos in Ubuntu here is the fix from: http://helpforlinux.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-cannot-click-on-flash-in-ubuntu.html
I have Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit and it worked for me.

Hit ALT+F2 and enter the below line 

gksudo gedit /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer
Add the following line BEFORE the last line of text 
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
Save.
Restart any applications using flash

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Tue, 08/31/2010 - 21:36 — jonlinej (not verified)

I would like to say thank you

I would like to say thank you to author of these articles on this site. I read all of these articles and i need to read some new articles. I've watched a video on youtube about this topic for now and i loved it. Also it is one of the rarely topic on this site.

See you on a new topic...

Tue, 06/29/2010 - 05:37 — Anonymous (not verified)

thank you thank you thank you

works perfect noticed the difference right away

Wed, 06/23/2010 - 22:35 — hazeyguy (not verified)

against all my expectations

against all my expectations (it looked way too plain and easy!) it works. thank you!

Wed, 06/09/2010 - 16:36 — anty (not verified)

Thanks

I thought this was a YouTube-Problem, but when I googled it, I found this post. Thanks for putting this up!

Fri, 06/04/2010 - 02:53 — Queen Bees (not verified)

Thanks!

Nice Post! Very Helpful!

Sun, 05/16/2010 - 04:36 — rhinokitty (not verified)

Brilliant!

WTF?! That was a pretty big oversight! Is this a problem that Ubuntu should have caught? Thanks for the fix!

Sat, 05/08/2010 - 12:12 — Froggy (not verified)

Great !

Pretty good tips ! It works perfectly for Chromium and with the last ubuntu version (Lucid Lynx today).
Thanks !

Fri, 03/19/2010 - 14:20 — hal (not verified)

It works!

Thanks a lot for this - it solved my problem!!

Tue, 02/16/2010 - 22:59 — itisbasi (not verified)

Works

 Worked perfectly thanks. 

Thu, 12/17/2009 - 10:58 — Anonymous (not verified)

Empty file

When trying to edit the file mentioned under Ubuntu 9.10 i386 I see a blank file.

Mon, 12/14/2009 - 06:47 — DUI Lawyer (not verified)

Thanks for sharing this blog.

Thanks for sharing this blog. I actually do experience this most of the time. Good thing you have shared a remedy for this problem. I actually tried it just now and it really works!

Tue, 12/08/2009 - 00:09 — sam (not verified)

thankyou

Worked perfectly, Kudos!

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