Two Major Annoyances in Ubuntu Hardy
17. August 2008, 10:43 Uhr von FabianThis is just a random rant. Feel free to ignore, rant back or help.
Flash sucks
First there were the problems with (the rather new) pulseaudio. You could not play flash sound and have a media player running at the same time. I installed flashplugin-nonfreebeta to get Flash 10 Beta, which seemed slightly better and works in Firefox (ok, last.fm eating 100% CPU), Epiphany and Opera, so I stick to it. Then, yesterday, after an update to this package, Flash stopped working in all browsers. Found no solution, switched back to Flash 9. Works in Firefox and Epiphany but NOT Opera. Argh. Haven’t tested audio stuff yet. All this switching and testing versions involves many browser restarts, X restarts, media player restarts and, in the worst case, media player library re-imports. Sucks.
Random Window Sizes for Firefox and Eye Of Gnome
Sometimes Firefox opens maximized (that’s good), sometimes “almost maximized” (that’s ok) and sometimes “almost maximzed but stretched to a different virtual desktop than it appears to be on” with the effect that Alt-Tab’ing to it doesn’t work properly (that’s unbearable!). Even worse with EOG (Gnome’s default image viewer): while Firefox only extends by some pixels into another desktop, EOG’s upper 20% of the window including the title bar are on the other desktop, which means no quick drag’n'drop or click to maximize to fix this annoyance, instead I have to maximize its window by the context menu in the taskbar. Sucks.
Fabian Neumann
August 17th, 2008 at 10:48
For EOG, you can hold down the ALT key and drag the window to a new position on the screen.
Also, I don’t know about Hardy, but in some configurations you can hold ALT and use the right mouse button to resize the window.
August 17th, 2008 at 11:11
Unfortunately, if I just move the window down, the lower 20% will disappear on the other screen. Alt+RightMouse doesn’t work in Compiz, I think. Liked that in Xfce, tho.
August 18th, 2008 at 20:38
Are you using Ubuntu x32 or x64? If x32, please try to install libcurl3 and libnss3-1d. Please report back if that was successful, so I can change the packages.
If you\’re on x64 it\’ll be more complicated. I\’m looking into that right now.