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Disable Pipelight in Ubuntu Guest Session

Asked by Elias K Gardner

The ubuntu guest session does not save anything, so every time I open a browser in the guest session it downloads and installs wine-silverlight5.1-installer and wine-mpg2splt-installer. This takes a bunch of time and is unneeded. Is there a way to disable the silverlight plugin for the guest session ? Or in reverse to only enable the silverlight plugin or pipelight in general for the user account I use it on?

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Best Michael Müller (mqchael) said : 		#1

Hi,

Pipelight allows you to choose whether you want to enable a plugin for all users or just some users. The difference is whether you call "pipelight-plugin --enable" with root rights (i.e. sudo) or without it. First of all you should disable all plugins globally:

sudo pipelight-plugin --disable-all

and now execute "pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight" (without sudo!) in every user account in which you want to use Silverlight. Pipelight should now no longer become active in the guest session.

Michael

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Elias K Gardner (zorkerz) said : 		#2

Thanks Michael Müller, that solved my question.

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Elias K Gardner (zorkerz) said : 		#3

Thank you Michael!

That makes perfect sense. I thought I had read something about doing it by
user.

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Michael Müller <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Your question #248227 on Pipelight changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/248227
>
> Status: Open => Answered
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> Michael Müller proposed the following answer:
> Hi,
>
> Pipelight allows you to choose whether you want to enable a plugin for
> all users or just some users. The difference is whether you call
> "pipelight-plugin --enable" with root rights (i.e. sudo) or without it.
> First of all you should disable all plugins globally:
>
> sudo pipelight-plugin --disable-all
>
> and now execute "pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight" (without sudo!)
> in every user account in which you want to use Silverlight. Pipelight
> should now no longer become active in the guest session.
>
> Michael
>
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