I’m currently running openSuSE 11.4 (kde v 4.6.4), and after unlocking the mouse cursor from the DOSBox (v 0.74) window, none of the Plasma Desktop Widgets or Components will register mouse clicks until I reboot.
Is there something config-wise I might change to prevent this from happening, or is there an otherwise quick way to restart only plasma using the terminal? Yakuake still drops down, and works, fortunately, so doing this is not a problem.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that all of said applications were installed from openSuSE repos using YaST2.
I’m currently running openSuSE 11.4 (kde v 4.6.4), and after unlocking the mouse cursor from the DOSBox (v 0.74) window, none of the Plasma Desktop Widgets or Components will register mouse clicks until I reboot.
Is there something config-wise I might change to prevent this from happening, or is there an otherwise quick way to restart only plasma using the terminal? Yakuake still drops down, and works, fortunately, so doing this is not a problem.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that all of said applications were installed from openSuSE repos using YaST2.
Have you tried the Ctrl-Alt-F1, which gives you a terminal session to log in to, but then, instead, enter Ctrl-Alt-F7 to restore the GUI session? It has allowed KDE to “find” a new monitor attached after startup, but not sure about mouse clicks. None the less, it might be worth a try when this occurs.
So it is my thoughts this is a bug of some sort with kde v 4.6.4 as I don’t see it in kde 4.6. I just saw were kde 4.7 was going to hit Factory and so perhaps you will want to upgrade to the newer version and see just what it might do for this problem. I must say that when I used to chase the KDE version up the ladder, I had nothing but odd issues all of the time and finally decided I would just stick with what works, though I do understand other issues with kde 4.6 might still exist.
On 06/19/2011 12:06 AM, jwesleycooper wrote:
>
> I’m currently running openSuSE 11.4 (kde v 4.6.4), and after unlocking
> the mouse cursor from the DOSBox (v 0.74) window, none of the Plasma
> Desktop Widgets or Components will register mouse clicks until I reboot.
>
> Is there something config-wise I might change to prevent this from
> happening, or is there an otherwise quick way to restart only plasma
> using the terminal? Yakuake still drops down, and works, fortunately,
> so doing this is not a problem.
>
> EDIT: Forgot to mention that all of said applications were installed
> from openSuSE repos using YaST2.
>
>
occasionally my desktop (11.4 32 /w KDE4.6.0) will not respond to left
mouse clicks, while i can continue to control the cursor and right mouse
clicks or scroll wheel clicks (double click) sometimes are ‘seen’ and
sometimes not…
however, i have (so far) been unable to determine when these situations
occur and when not…EXCEPT, another (somewhere her) noticed that
maybe it happens with Flash running in FF…
and, i must say that every time it has happened to me lately i have
flash running, or was running…
once, while the mouse was ‘broken’ i ran “zypper ps” and saw that TWO
“plugin-containe” (which i associate with Flash in FF) were still
running with its ‘file’ (video, i guess) already deleted…
occasionally my desktop (11.4 32 /w KDE4.6.0) will not respond to left
mouse clicks, while i can continue to control the cursor and right mouse
clicks or scroll wheel clicks (double click) sometimes are ‘seen’ and
sometimes not…
however, i have (so far) been unable to determine when these situations
occur and when not…EXCEPT, another (somewhere her) noticed that
maybe it happens with Flash running in FF…
and, i must say that every time it has happened to me lately i have
flash running, or was running…
once, while the mouse was ‘broken’ i ran “zypper ps” and saw that TWO
“plugin-containe” (which i associate with Flash in FF) were still
running with its ‘file’ (video, i guess) already deleted…
That is very interesting that you could associate a mouse issue with Flash operation in Firefox. Is this the 64 bit beta version you can install or the current 32 bit version?
On 06/19/2011 04:36 PM, jdmcdaniel3 wrote:
> That is very interesting that you could associate a mouse issue with
> Flash operation in Firefox.
i am not (yet) certain, but i’m beginning to believe that somehow Flash
is either keeping FF or Plasma or the CPU or something so busy that
the mouse clicks are being ‘overlooked’ or just lost…for a while…it
seems if you wait LONG enough eventually you get the mouse clicks back…
and, i think the waiting period is shorter after you shut down FF…
> Is this the 64 bit beta version you can
> install or the current 32 bit version?
