Re: KiCad is horrible on CURRENT

> On 29. Jul 2020, at 11:13, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
> wrote:
> 
> I updated to current three days ago:
> 
>    13.0-CURRENT #0 r363533M: Sun Jul 26 08:39:48 UTC 2020 
> 
> When I start cad/kicad (which I have not done in some time), the
> gui is horribly lagging and often downright confused about
> the cursors whereabouts.
> 
> I've tried switching between "fall-back" and "accellerated"
> in kicad, but there does not seem to be any qualitative
> difference.
> 
> One of the few diagnostics I see related to this is:
> 
>    07:33:34: Debug: window wxScrolledWindow(0x81a3f8000, ) lost focus
> even though it didn't have it
> 
> I have no idea if this is a kicad, Xorg or libinput related.
> 

This sounds a bit like it could be related to
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245854

Two easy things you could check:
- try connecting a usb mouse (to rule out synaptics being the issue).
- try using a different WM and see if the problem persists.

Touch jumps are common and haven’t caused me any problems so far (then
again, I'm not kicad user).

-m

-- 
Michael Gmelin