[openbox] OpenBox and Opera and Flash

[Mikael Magnusson]

On 7 July 2010 10:21, vlad <vla at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have noticed some strange behaviour of Opera on Openbox related to
> Flash (yes, the Adobe one) and sometime to textfield input.
> First I thought it was an Opera problem. I had it some time with 10.10,
> but then I switched to Opera-devel (10.60) and I thought all the time it
> was Opera's fault. I also described this on Opera's comment site:
> http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/06/25/unix-fixes-stabillity-and-more-approaching-10-60-final?startidx=50#comment32507092
> and filed a bug report.
> The problem is following:
> I start youtube or another flash-driven site. I want to click inside the
> flash window. Sometimes I can do this once or even twice and use the
> controls of this window, but then the window "locks", so I cannot
> click any other flash control. This happens mostly with grooveshark.com,
> but also with the youtube player timebar or sometimes spiegel.de/video
> or similar sites.
> As I said, I thought it was an Opera problem, and I was astonished
> that almost everyone at Opera ignores this problem or that I'm the only
> one having this. But then someone said this prob isn't existent on DEs.
> I've tried KDE and that's true. The flash window focus seems to work
> correctly. I can click inside flash windows more than one time,
> most of the controls work fine/as expected, etc.
> I noticed a similar thing with textfield input. When I try to fill out a
> textfield, sometimes I cannot directly get focus on it. I have to change
> to other window and then back to Opera's.
> I don't know how this could be related to OpenBox, but I tried KDE and
> these two things definitely weren't present there. Also flash works fine
> in other browsers (tried ff3 and chromium) on Opnebox.
> I am using Openbox 3.4.11.2 on Archlinux with "Opera 10.60 Internal Build 6386 for Linux"
> - the last stable one.

Does it work if you hold shift while clicking? If it does, it's a
flash bug where it
doesn't accept the events it gets from openbox when it passes through
clicks. You can
work around it by removing any bindings you have in the "Client"
context for the mouse.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson