[kde-freebsd] Strange KDE4 behavior after updating to -current (solved)

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

Beech Rintoul <beech at freebsdnorth.com> writes:

> On Tuesday 09 August 2011 08:02:52 Beech Rintoul wrote:
>> I'm having problems with kde4. This is a bit hard to describe, but
>> something is blocking input. When I type anything into a webpage, shell,
>> or email nothing shows up on the screen until I move the mouse. In the
>> case of a shell any command typed neither displays or executes till there
>> is mouse movement.
>>
>> I have rebuilt all the ports and kde4 (several times) but still the same.
>> In console everything is fine as it is in xterm. This is a real hair
>> puller and I don't have a clue what to check next.
>>
>> pinnacle# uname -a
>> FreeBSD pinnacle.akherb.com 9.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 #2: Sun Aug  7
>> 20:48:59 AKDT 2011
>> root at pinnacle.akherb.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PINNACLE i386
>>
>> Ports tree is up to date and so is kde4. Any help would be appreciated as
>> this is almost unusable as it is.
>
> Adding the following to /etc/rc.config seems to fix the problem:
>
> moused_nondefault_enable="NO"
>
> Moused doesn't seem to be playing very nicely with kde4 and disabling it on
> startup results in no mouse in KDE. If I start with it disabled I have to
> restart dbus, hald and then moused to get things working again. Time to track
> down the committer and have a chat.

BTW, does non-KDE Qt applications also show this problem (qtconfig-qt4,
for example)?