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I have Gentoo with KDE running in a Virtualbox VM. It's a new install, |
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created and updated with the most recent packages less than a week ago. |
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When I first start up the VM, the KDE desktop will not respond to the |
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mouse. There's a rectangular box in the bottom right corner that's |
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shaded darker than the rest of the desktop. It appears as though there |
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may be a dialog box there that is not properly displaying. Neither |
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left or right clicking on the desktop, the menu app, the icons on the |
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desktop, etc. has any effect. The system doesn't even seem to register |
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the clicks. (I've also tried clicking on just about every pixel in the |
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shaded dialog-box area.) However,if I put the cursor over the three |
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parallel lines in the upper left corner of the desktop, the icon |
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changes shade and shows the shadow. It doesn't respond to clicks, |
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however. |
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I can press the Alt-F2 shortcut key and bring up the Run App dialog |
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box. I can run Konsole from there. Once I bring up Konsole, I can |
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move, resize and otherwise manipulate the window with the mouse as |
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normal. I can select text in the window by clicking and dragging. But |
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I still cannot do anything with mouse clicks outside the window. |
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In console, I can kill the plasmashell and manually restart it. Once I |
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do that, the desktop responds to the mouse normally until I restart the |
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VM. |
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I've logged in as root and completely deleted ~/.kde4 (under my normal |
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login) and rebooted without fixing the issue. |
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Since restarting plasmashell causes everything to work normally, I |
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believe this is a KDE issue and not a Virtualbox mouse issue. I |
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suppose it's possible something isn't working right with the virtual |
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mouse when KDE first starts and it is working right later when I |
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restart plasmashell, but that seems unlikely. If it matters, the host |
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machine is also Gentoo running KDE. |
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Any ideas or suggestions for resolving the issue greatly appreciated. |