Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:03:23 -0400 From: Dwayne MacKinnon <dmk@ncf.ca> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Cc: kde-freebsd@kde.org Subject: hal-0.5.11.r2_4 does not play nice with /usr/sbin/moused Message-ID: <200803281003.23777.dmk@ncf.ca>
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Hi folks, After upgrading to hal-0.5.11.r2_4 (which was committed as part of the recent Gnome upgrade) my xwindows experience started behaving very oddly. If I clicked a titlebar to move a window, it would shutter. I would type in a konsole (I use KDE 3.5.8) and the type wouldn't appear until I moved the mouse. With some googling, I found some people having problems with HAL hotplugging and xorg. I found myself wondering if the problem might be HAL's interaction with xorg and my mouse. Through experimentation I found that if I killed the moused, and then started x, the problem vanished. Anyways, not sure if this is worth raising a PR about, but I wanted the two "big" desktop communities to know. A note in /usr/ports/UPDATING might be prudent. Cheers, Dwayne MacKinnon -- I can't afford to make any exceptions. Once word leaks out that a pirate has gone soft people start to disobey him and it's nothing but work, work, work all the time. - The Man In Black, from the Princess Bride.
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