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UPDATE: I’ve actually backed out of this theme by reinstalling Human, but have kept the cool blue login splash and deep sky blue desktop background. Instead of Human I’ve applied Gnome’s Glossy theme (as recommended by Jason Rowe, see below). Looks pretty sharp to me. Would love to re-enabled Normal Visual Effects, which gave me [...]

64-bit Real Player on Ubuntu

Yes, it’s finally here.
Requires compatibility libraries to run, specifically libstdc++5. For Ubuntu do an apt-get install libstdc++5 (for more, see this post on the forum). Screenshot follows:

Preliminary testing results: The plugin still fails the BBC and C-SPAN “acid tests” (you know, actually being able to access content), but I’ll be watching this closely to see [...]