Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

[Frank Steinmetzger]

Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Paul Hartman:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frank Steinmetzger<Warp_7@×××.de> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try
> > from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and
> > was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire
> > X. Mostly it happens when I open Konsole, the next often occasion is
> > opening a menu (main menu, context menu, you name it), but also only
> > after a Konsole windows was opened. All I see is a quick error message
> > about glibc, then X restarts and I'm back at kdm.
>
> I had Konsole-related crashes and other weirdness when I first
> switched to KDE4. It turned out to be related to fonts! I installed
> DejaVu fonts and used them for everything in KDE's font config, and in
> Konsole I'm using "Fixed [ETL]" size 10 (I'm not sure which package
> that came from, but I think it's one of the core Xorg fonts).

I, too, changed the font to a bitmap variant (terminus). But that didn't help; 
though crashes occured less, if my memory serves me correctly, they were 
still there.
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