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

[Beech Rintoul]

On Thursday 11 August 2011 02:19:08 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> 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)?

Doesn't seem to. I found a thread that talks about the same problem, so this 
doesn't appear to be new.

http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Irritating-delay-in-mouse-in-kde4-
td3829299.html

Everything seems ok now, I just wish I'd run across this post before I started 
troubleshooting.

Beech