Moin moin Your original message in February did reach the list (it just required some manual interaction in the spam filter to allow it): https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2020-February/033281.html
Have you tried disabling/enabling the compositor? mfg Tobias On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 22:23, David L. Sanford <i.n1...@programmer.net> wrote: > > I have been using kde5 on freebsd for some time now. But the latest > version is not working for me. Here is my current setup: > > VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 6.0.12_SUSE r132055 > FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE r354233 GENERIC amd64 > xorg-7.7_3 > kde5-5.17.4.19.12.0 > > When I open Konsole and try to pull the bottom down to make the display > higher, the background starts showing through rather than the Konsole > content. And any pop-up or pull down dialogs I try to open just show a > black box or the background. > > This did not happen with the original version of kde5 that installed > with FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE. It has only started happening when I tried > to update to kde5-5.17.3 on FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE. I decided to install > the latest of everything, and the problem still persists. > > I tried sending you this report before with a screenshot attached, but > got the following response: > > ====================================================== > > Your mail to 'kde-freebsd' with the subject > > apps show background, menus show as black boxes > > Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. > > The reason it is being held: > > Message body is too big: 439899 bytes with a limit of 100 KB > > Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive > notification of the moderator's decision. > > ====================================================== > > I never received a notification nor had my message posted to the list. > > >