Netflix Desktop

problem with latest netflix user_xattr

Asked by Anne Fairchild

It's not exactly a bug, but ..

I have my home account mounted via nfs. I had corrected for this by using a symbolic link from ~/.netflix-desktop to a directory on a local ext3 filesystem. It was working fine until a recent update.

You're using the .wine_browser file in the home account to test for user_xattr which messed me up for a bit. I edited /usr/bin/wine-browser line 8 to

WINE_BROWSER="${HOME}/.netflix-desktop/.wine-browser";

so that the .wine-browser file is on my local filesystem

I don't know if this is terribly important, but I wanted to let you know.

Thanks for the hard work. It's great to watch Netflix on my computer.
Anne :-)

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Best Erich E. Hoover (ehoover) said : 		#1

I would recommend changing your ~/.wine-browser folder to be the symlink to a local ext3 filesystem. I renamed the folder to go along with the change from just supporting Netflix to also supporting other services such as LOVEFiLM and Redbox. As a result, I do not plan on changing the folder name in the future - "~/.wine-browser" should be the folder from now on. I'm really sorry this resulted in an inconvenience for you, please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help.

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Anne Fairchild (amfairc) said : 		#2

Oh. That explains what was going on. I feel kinda silly now. Thanks again. Does your new script check for and remove the old .netflix-desktop directory? Just curious.

Peace,
Anne :-)

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Erich E. Hoover (ehoover) said : 		#3

Yes, the script moves the old location to the new location very first thing. I'm rather surprised that it didn't maintain your setup, it should have moved the symbolic link from being at ~/.netflix-desktop to be located at ~/.wine-browser such that you wouldn't notice the change was made.