I've just started using Kdenlive and am quite excited by the interface and program. Previously,I had used Kino a bit and Kdenlive looks like a major improvement in every respect.

I first installed Kdenlive version 0.7.2 and everything seemed to work fine. No problems with the mouse cursor in this version.

Today I installed version 0.7.6 and experienced the following sequence:

After installing the update, the Kdenlive configuration wizard appeared, and I walked through the various steps. Everything seemed to be fine except Recordmydesktop wasn't installed. I wasn't sure if I needed that or not, so I just kept going through the configuration wizard.

Then Kdenlive opened. The mouse cursor worked fine.

I plugged in my video camera to the firewire port on my computer. (The camera was turned off.) Suddenly the mouse cursor no longer worked. (No movement, frozen.)

I used the Alt-F control keys to close Kdenlive. As soon as the program closed, the mouse cursor worked fine.

Re-opened Kdenlive and mouse cursor was frozen as soon as the program was opened.

I removed the firewire cable from the computer, opened Kdenlive, and the cursor was still frozen.

Thinking that this might be related to the missing Recordmydesktop module, I installed that.

Re-opened Kdenlive, mouse cursor still frozen.

Uninstalled Kdenlive and re-installed it.

Opened Kdenlive and mouse cursor still frozen. The mouse and cursor seem to work fine in all other programs.

System specs: Opensuse 11.1 (x86_64) with all updates to the current date applied.
Radeonhd (3D Support) driver Radeon X 1200
Logitech USB mouse model N-BD58
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Memory 2 GB
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5 Motherboard Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

I've done a quick Google search as well as searching the forums at this website, and I haven't found anything that seems similar to the problem I'm having. If I've somehow missed seeing this documented somewhere, I apologize. I really looking forward to using Kdenlive, and I'd really appreciate any help in solving this problem.

If there is any further data or information you need, I'd be happy to supply it.

Thanks in advance for any help.

did you try the --nograb option? That is what I'm using on my Toshiba AMD Athlon(tm) 64 x2 Dual Core - Karmic 9.10
Use 'kdenlive --help-all' to get options.

Xamiga, thank you for your reply!

Here's what happened. I turned on my computer the day after writing my post, and tried Kdenlive to see if it had somehow fixed itself overnight, but the mouse was still frozen.

I then went to the forums to see if anyone had replied to my post, and found your reply. I then re-opened Kdenlive and started doing things using the keyboard strokes to navigate to see if I could follow your suggestion, started looking for "Kdenlive...help...all" as you suggested but I got distracted a bit and started doing random things. I cleared this, opened that, closed that, explored this... I did this for about 5 minutes just poking around.

Then I returned to the forum to read your suggestion again, I when I got back to Kdenlive ...voila...mouse up and scrambling around. I plugged in the firewire, and it continues to work. Unfortunately, I don't know what I did that fixed it, or even if what I did caused it to start working again.

Maybe it healed itself. Maybe it is alive after all.

Thanks, again, for your reply! It was part of the mysterious chain of events that worked!