Note: The Firefox related stuff now got its own page.

Try the following

• Make sure Z-Buffer is explicitely enabled at the call to glutInitDisplayMode (eg: glutInitDisplayMode( GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_RGB | GLUT_DEPTH);)
• Invert normals
• Set Z-Buffer depth to 24bit

If you have the problem of owning a notebook which doesn't come with a hardware mixer and therefore offers no possibility to make sure the sound is indeed muted, the Nupsi¹⁾ might be something for you.

• Take a 3.5mm headphone plug,
• saw off half of it, so that only a small, approx. 5-7mm high not-plug-part remains,
• fill it with hot glue (and paint the glue afterwards if you want to),
• and plug it into your headphone jack whenever you want to make sure that the sound is muted.

Sounds stupid, but works. Patent pending

For using the Subversive plugin with the JavaHL connector, add -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni to your eclipse.ini.