kde5 and DBus issue + input problems

[Jan Beich]

Grzegorz Junka <list1 at gjunka.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Trying kde5 on a fresh FreeBSD 12-RELEASE system. I pretty much
> installed kde5 and xinit. Then edited .xinitrc to contain
>
> exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
>
> Initially startx was starting the X11 session but nothing was being
> shown apart from a window with this note:
>
> Could not sync environment to dbus

DBus requirement is documented in the Handbook.
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html#x11-wm-kde
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48513

> I then run
>
> dbus-uuidgen --ensure
>
> and now the desktop starts fine. Is this a bug or expected? Note that
> I am using my own compiled kde5 so some settings may not be the
> default ones.

It's not just KDE, see
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228001