FrostEternal wrote:But... it seems I have a new problem.. =P
When I logged into the graphic gui, I noticed all the icons are in the bottom middle. The screen is 720p, and the menubar is at the top..
Upon closer inspection, I noticed there is a lighter than the rest of the bg square at the bottom right of the screen--I can't move the icons outside of this square. Weeeird.
Not really a big deal, though.. I can still have windows that fill the whole screen.
But if you had quick answers to any of the following, that would be awesome:
So - let me clarify some things here - cause this desktop is unique to YDL.
Linux is basically a text-based OS - it uses a program called X Windows for its GUI. X Windows is kinda odd, though, because all it knows how to do is draw windows. Everything else - scroll bars, close buttons, move bars, etc. - has to be provided by a separate program. We call these programs "window managers".
This was fine for early days of Linux - but eventually people wanted more. File manager, desktop icons, etc. So - a new class of program was developed - the desktop manager.
Normally, Linuxes use GNOME or KDE for their desktop managers. However, YDL uses Enlightenment - sometimes called E17 - which is only a window manager. To get the desktop icons, YDL loads a separate program called Nautilus - it's actually the file manager from Gnome.
Nautilus and E17 both have their own desktops. That's what you're seeing. What you need to do is align them. Luckily - it's easy. From the YDL "button", select Windows --> Clean up windows. I think that will fix the alignment.
- Do you know why every time I log off/reboot/shutdown, it resets the settings on my PS3 WiFi and makes me have to re-input them again the next time I log in?
Normally I would say it's a file permissions error. But - since you have to become root user to edit networking settings - that should take care of it. Root user can overwrite any files. I'm not sure why this isn't working for you. You might try logging in with the root account to see if that can make the settings stick.
- Do you know how to install a recent version of Flash in Firefox?
Ah - the eternal question. I get this a lot.
Here's the deal. You can't.
Adobe customizes Flash for operating system and processor architecture. As of this posting, they have not released a version for Power PC Linux. Your PS3 runs Linux on a PowerPC core in the Cell processor. PowerPC code is not x86 processor compatible. And, although there are Linux versions, they're all x86.
You might wonder if you can use the Mac OS X PowerPC version of Flash. This would make sense, since Mac OS X is Unix based. Unfortunately, Mac OS X uses a different binary format - Mach-O - instead of the Linux standard ELF format. So - that won't work either.
So - no Adobe Flash. We have to rely on open source, reversed engineered Flash work-alikes - gnash or swfdec. They work....okay. Not great.
Gnash - and the Firefox plugin gnash-plugin - should already be installed on your system. Unfortunately, they don't work with YouTube very well. Some folks on this board have work arounds for this - you'll want to look here:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4439Cheers,
Paul