On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 16:50 -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > So Facebook's default photo uploader is a Java applet. Ever since > a recent update (I think it was when Ubuntu 9.04 came out?), the native > widgets in the applet are invisible. > > That is, things like scrollbars, checkboxes, and (the borders to) buttons > are invisible. I can click them, if I point at them. (i.e., if I click > kind of near the upper left of a photo thumbnail, where I remember the > checkbox being, I see the word "Upload" (which SHOULD be in a button widget) > change from grey to black. Or if I click and drag back and forth in the > blank space to the right of the thumbnails, I can scroll up and down.) > > I'm using Firefox 3.0.11 and "sun-java6-bin" package version "6-13-1". > (If I'm confused about which package is providing the JVM for applets > under Firefox, please excuse me.) > > A quick Google search for "ubuntu java applet invisible" > and "ubuntu java widgets invisible" didn't come up with anything useful, > so far. > > Anyone else notice this? Ideas how to fix? Thanks!
Please tell us the output of $ update-alternatives --list firefox-javaplugin.so If it's not a Sun JDK, you would need to use update-alterantives --configure (as root) on the appropriate alternative (which I think would be firefox-javaplugin.so, but I'm not sure because there are also several others for java plugins), to make the Sun version be the version your browser uses. If it's a non Sun JDK, then I suspect the problem would be that you're missing either classpath-gtkpeer or classpath-qtpeer to provide the widgets. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
