Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:36:29 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Cc: "'current@FreeBSD.org'" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: KDE4 and input events stalled Message-ID: <49DA83ED.3070905@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <49DA752B.5030805@freebsd.org> References: <49DA752B.5030805@freebsd.org>
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Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Running -CURRENT r190666 and finally got KDE4
> to run (by running dbus and hald), but the mouse
> and keyboard input are very wonky. USB mouse
> and keyboard, of course.
>
> For example, if I click on a button almost
> anywhere in the KDE interface (including
> Seamonkey):
> - Button down
> - See button depress
> - Button up
> - ?? nothing happens ??
> - Move mouse
> - Button up, event occurs
>
> I occasionally see this with keyboard input
> as well; keys don't appear until I move or
> click the mouse. This is less consistent,
> though.
>
> I haven't seen any evidence that events
> are actually getting lost; they're just
> getting held up somewhere.
>
> The net effect is very interesting; the
> whole interface felt incredibly sluggish until
> I learned to keep moving the mouse. Then
> it wasn't so bad.
>
> Tim
>
> P.S. KDE4 is very pretty; I could get used to this.
I installed KDE4 on one laptop and it seemed to work ok w/ both the
touchpad and a usb mouse. This is using hald+dbus.
Note I run the laptop very infrequently and it's not been updated for a
few weeks.
Sam
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