I have an odd problem... I have recently installed KDE4.2 on two separate FreeBSD machines. On one machine, everything is working great. On the other, there are no KDE Components listed in the drop down in systemsettings --> keyboard & mouse --> Global Keyboard Shortcuts, and all my keybindings are all screwy. I've even gone as far as removing all KDE4 ports and reinstalling them.

I've also done a diff on 'find /usr/local/kde4 | sort' between the two machines and come up with nothing, so all the same files are installed. Of course, I guess some of those files could be corrupted. I've also rsync'ed the entire ~/.kde* structure from the working machine to the non-working machine, but still the same results.

*However*, if I use this little script to start KDE, keybindings work as expected, and all the regular KDE components are listed in that section of systemsettings:

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#!/bin/sh
xbindkeys
/usr/local/kde4/bin/akregator &
/usr/local/kde4/bin/kwin &
/usr/local/kde4/bin/plasma &
/usr/local/kde4/bin/kmix &
/usr/local/kde4/bin/klipper &
/usr/local/kde4/bin/korgac -icon korgac &
/usr/local/bin/screenlets-daemon &
/usr/local/bin/kde4/krunner &
exec xscreensaver -no-splash


Any ideas what's going on?

Adam

Try rebuilding the Sycoca.

kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

Alright, I've given that a shot, but the same thing is still happening: no components listed, and broken keybindings.

Adam

This is unusual. What is the output of this command in Konsole?

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echo $KDEDIRS

bcooksley wrote:This is unusual. What is the output of this command in Konsole?

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echo $KDEDIRS

It's unset, on both the machine that works properly and the one that doesn't.

Adam

Does this issue happen under a new user on the affected machine?

Yes it does. I should have mentioned that earlier since that was one of the first things I tested. I also completely removed ~/.kde* and tried (even before trying a new user) and had the same results.

Adam

Are all the kdelibs, kdebase-runtime, kdebase-workspace packages installed correctly and fully updated? Also, are the permissions on the /usr/local/kde4, /etc/xdg, /etc/kde4 folders all correct ( including their subfolders )?

I have kdelibs-4.2.0, kdebase-4.2.0, kdebase-runtime-4.2.0_1, and kdebase-workspace-4.2.0 installed (plus other kde 4 packages, of course). They built from source without any problems. I've done a quick look under /usr/local/kde4 (/etc/xdg and /etc/kde4 do not exist, but there is a /usr/local/kde4/etc directory structure). Every file I've seen is 644 and every directory I've seen is 755, owned by root:wheel, which seems normal to me.

Something odd which seems to be related and might point this investigation in the right direction... On the system that is having this problem, when I start a kde session and then try to close a window with alt+q (my normal keybinding, which works if I start a session with that script above), not only does the window not close, but it's as if the alt key gets stuck. From that point on, I can only move windows with my mouse. Any time I click anywhere, on any window, the cursor changes and moving the mouse around causes the window to move...

Adam

What is the output of this command?

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which startkde

/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde

What is the output of these commands?

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export | grep -i xdg
export | grep -i kde

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[ adamk@sorrow - ~ ]: export | grep -i xdg
declare -x XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="/usr/local/kde4/etc/xdg::/etc/xdg:/usr/local/etc/xdg:/usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4"
declare -x XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/kde4/share::/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/local/share/gnome"
declare -x XDG_SESSION_COOKIE="db20cf75ae924abd904279af497cf990-1235641192.987077-774460900"
[ adamk@sorrow - ~ ]: export | grep -i kde
declare -x DESKTOP_SESSION="kde"
declare -x GTK2_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/adamk/.gtkrc-2.0::/home/adamk/.kde4/share/config/gtkrc-2.0"
declare -x GTK_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/adamk/.gtkrc::/home/adamk/.kde4/share/config/gtkrc"
declare -x KDE_FULL_SESSION="true"
declare -x KDE_MULTIHEAD="false"
declare -x KDE_SESSION_UID=""
declare -x KDE_SESSION_VERSION="4"
declare -x PATH="/usr/local/kde4/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/cairo/bin:/home/adamk/bin:/usr/lib/oss/bin:/usr/lib/oss/bin"
declare -x QT_PLUGIN_PATH="/home/adamk/.kde4/lib/kde4/plugins/:/usr/local/kde4/lib/kde4/plugins/"
declare -x XCURSOR_PATH="/usr/local/kde4/share/icons::~/.icons:/usr/share/icons:/usr/share/pixmaps:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons"
declare -x XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="/usr/local/kde4/etc/xdg::/etc/xdg:/usr/local/etc/xdg:/usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4"
declare -x XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/kde4/share::/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/local/share/gnome"


I am using two monitors, but one screen. Could the KDE_MULTIHEAD be a problem?

Adam

Can you try and shrink down the list of applications you launch in order to get a session with working key bindings until you discover which ones make the session work?

Yeah, I'll give that a shot. It may take a day or two as I'm pretty busy at work, but I'll let you know what I find out.