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[Elias Aarnio <elias.aarnio@xxxxxx>]

As Unity 2D has been removed from 12.10 there is a need for another
workaround. I found out that the flash player settings dialog works in
Gnome classic (No effects) -session in 12.10 64 bit Ubuntu.

Does this not hint that the problem is  in 3d acceleration?

In any case this is a bug that IMHO must be fixed before leaving the
working desktop alternatives out of the distribution. This bug means
that Ubuntu is inusable for people who host or attend with voice and
camera web conferences held with Flash based software like OpenMeetings
or Adobe Connect.

Adobe has really bad reputation for supporting Linux. This is a bug
where FLOSS community can show that it is not that bad the other way
around.

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Title:
  "Adobe Flash Player Settings" dialog does not respond to mouse clicks

Status in Chromium Browser:
  New
Status in Compiz:
  New
Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  New
Status in Midori: Webkit Web browser:
  Invalid
Status in Unity Distro Priority:
  Fix Released
Status in “adobe-flashplugin” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “midori” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce:
  1) Open a flash file. Be it a game, video, website, etc.
  2) Right click on the flash player and select "Settings"
  3) Try to click on something in the dialog box such as a checkbox or a tab

  What is expected to happen:
  The dialog box responds to user input, e.g. checking a checkbox or switching to a different tab.

  What happens instead:
  The dialog box does not respond. Nothing happens when the user interacts with it. The user must refresh the page to exit the dialog box.

  Workaround #1:

  1) Go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html#117645
  2) Configure your Flash Player settings using the Settings Panel

  Workaround #2:
  1) Open Flash in fullscreen mode
  2) Open Settings and configure your preferences

  ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:
  Adobe flash player is configured on my system to ask before a website sets a flash cookie, so if a video (eg on youtube) is played, a dialogue box will pop up asking me whether or not to allow the website to store a cookie on my machine.  However, nothing happens when I click on either 'allow' or 'deny', so the box stays put and I can't view or control the video playing beneath it.
  On this machine I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10; in 11.04 there was a program for adjusting the flash player settings in the System Settings control panel, but that program is no longer there and not accessible via the dash, so there is no obvious way to just configure flash to allow all cookies and avoid the dialogue box.

  Workaround: using Unity 2D instead

  Notice : the problem has been already corrected two years before : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/410407?comments=all
  I'll add that it's perhaps because of Compiz : It works with Unity 2d, KDE, Gnome-Shell, Gnome-Session-With-No-Effect BUT it affects Ubuntu 3D, Gnome-Session Fallback and Cairo-Dock session

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: firefox 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
  AplayDevices:
   **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
   card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
     Subdevices: 0/1
     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  ArecordDevices:
   **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
   card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
     Subdevices: 1/1
     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  sean       1362 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:   sean       1362 F...m pulseaudio
  BuildID: 20110929002329
  CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  Card0.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf7db8000 irq 44'
     Mixer name	: 'Realtek ALC269'
     Components	: 'HDA:10ec0269,104383ce,00100004'
     Controls      : 12
     Simple ctrls  : 7
  Channel: release
  Date: Mon Oct  3 12:51:36 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/plugin-container
  ForcedLayersAccel: False
  IfupdownConfig:
   auto lo
   iface lo inet loopback
  IncompatibleExtensions: NoScript - ID={73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}, Version=2.1.4, minVersion=1.9a2, maxVersion=1.9.6, Location=app-profile, Type=extension, Active=Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  IpRoute:
   default via 10.10.88.1 dev wlan0  proto static
   10.10.88.0/21 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.10.92.255  metric 2
   169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0  scope link  metric 1000
  Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=7.0.1/20110929002329 (Running)
  RunningIncompatibleAddons: True
  SourcePackage: firefox
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-26 (37 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 10/16/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 1102
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: 1005HA
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
  dmi.board.version: x.xx
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
  dmi.chassis.version: x.x
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1102:bd10/16/2009:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pn1005HA:pvrx.x:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rn1005HA:rvrx.xx:cvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:ct10:cvrx.x:
  dmi.product.name: 1005HA
  dmi.product.version: x.x
  dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.

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