apps show background, menus show as black boxes or background

[Tobias C. Berner]

Moin moin

Your original message in February did reach the list (it just required
some manual interaction in the spam filter to allow it):
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2020-February/033281.html

Have you tried disabling/enabling the compositor?

mfg Tobias

On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 22:23, David L. Sanford <I.N10.2 at programmer.net> wrote:
>
> I have been using kde5 on freebsd for some time now.  But the latest
> version is not working for me.  Here is my current setup:
>
> VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 6.0.12_SUSE r132055
> FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE r354233 GENERIC  amd64
> xorg-7.7_3
> kde5-5.17.4.19.12.0
>
> When I open Konsole and try to pull the bottom down to make the display
> higher, the background starts showing through rather than the Konsole
> content.  And any pop-up or pull down dialogs I try to open just show a
> black box or the background.
>
> This did not happen with the original version of kde5 that installed
> with FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE.  It has only started happening when I tried
> to update to kde5-5.17.3 on FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE.  I decided to install
> the latest of everything, and the problem still persists.
>
> I tried sending you this report before with a screenshot attached, but
> got the following response:
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> Your mail to 'kde-freebsd' with the subject
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>      apps show background, menus show as black boxes
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> The reason it is being held:
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> Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
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> I never received a notification nor had my message posted to the list.
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