huludesktop gives a blank gray window

Question

When I start huludesktop, it creates a blank, gray window. It doesn't print any warnings or errors... but it also doesn't do anything else, either.

Answer 1

The huludesktop application can do this when it is looking in the wrong place for the flash plugin. Check ~/.huludesktop for a flash section. For example, in my corrected file, I have these two lines:

[flash]
flash_location = /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

You can find the right location to add via the command locate libflashplayer.so (perhaps running updatedb first if you have only recently installed flash).