[cw-discuss] Linux/Windows Flash player conflict

[Jeremy White]

Hi Matt,

I'm not positive what's going on, but it sounds like
KoolMove occassionally opens a browser to view something,
which it opens in a Linux browser, but it needs the
'Windows' plugin to work right.

If that's right, here is something to try:

  1.  Enable the plugins

  2.  Move the plugins from ~/.mozilla/plugins
      (it should be obvious which are CrossOver related)
      to another path.  Let's call it ~/.mozilla/koolmoves

  3.  Run KoolMoves like this:
        MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=~/.mozilla/koolmoves <command-line-that-starts-koolmoves>

That may work, although if you have an already running Mozilla,
you may not get much joy.

An alternate would be to configure CrossOver to launch a different
browser - say Epiphany - and configure Epiphany to use an alterate path.

Cheers,

Jeremy

> Thanks to Hetz Ben Hamo and Jeremy White for both pointing out the
> ability to disable plugins in the configuration menu.  The long and
> short of that approach: it works to prevent the Windows plugin from
> "taking over" my Linux web surfing, but it puts me back to square one
> with respect to running KoolMoves.  That is, KoolMoves requires the
> plugin for complete functionality.  (Effects previews and so forth use
> the plugin and KM apparently doesn't "know" to look beyond the "C drive"
> for the Linux version.  I'm inquiring elsewhere to see if I can tweak KM
> to find the Linux plugin, since that would also solve my problem.)
> 
> At this point, then, my best solution is to disable the plugin when my
> priority is web surfing and re-enable it when my priority is KoolMoves. 
> Not elegant, but workable.  Is there anyway, though, to have my cake and
> eat it too?  Anyway to enable the plugin, but only for the COO
> "environment"?
> 
> Alternatively, how can I get the Windows version working correctly with
> respect to web surfing?  Right now it only functions on one page or tab
> at a time.  If I have multiple tabs open, for instance, and more than
> one of those have flash content, only the oldest tab displays the flash;
> all others display gray boxes where the flash should be.  Closing the
> oldest flash-containing tab results in flash now working in the next
> oldest tab and so on.
> 
> This happens in the context of using my Linux FireFox to surf the web. 
> Maybe it would go away if I used a browser from COO as well, but I don't
> want to go that far.  (I really just want to use COO to run KM and
> nothing else at this point; I'm very happy with my Ubuntu.)
> 
> So, to recap, is there either a) a way to get the COO Flash plugin to
> work only within the COO "environment" or b) a way to get the COO Flash
> plugin to work 100% correctly when called by the Linux browser?  Either
> one of those would be improvements over the enable/disable approach.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Matt Jordan
> 
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