apps show background, menus show as black boxes or background

[David L. Sanford]

No.  Please tell me how to test that.

On 3/15/20 10:32 PM, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> ======================================================
>>
>> Your mail to 'kde-freebsd' with the subject
>>
>>       apps show background, menus show as black boxes
>>
>> Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
>>
>> The reason it is being held:
>>
>>       Message body is too big: 439899 bytes with a limit of 100 KB
>>
>> Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
>> notification of the moderator's decision.
>>
>> ======================================================
>>
>> I never received a notification nor had my message posted to the list.
>>
>>
>>
-- 
David Lee Sanford