KDE 4.8.1 doing strange things with some applications

[Alex Schuster]

pete writes:

> I am having a few strange interactions here with KDE4.8.1  i use claws
> mail for the simple reason Kmail has caused me too much hassle
> recently  ,

Me too, for daily use. For encrypted mails or local folders I still use 
KMail. Or when Claws crashes after sending a mail like now.

>  all was well untill the update to KDE 4.8.1 then every time
> i send a mail it closes claws down if i open a compose window then
> think dont bother and close the window the entire claws vanishes
> Claws mail is version 3.8.0 on Arch Linux as in sig block below

Exactly the same happens here on Gentoo Linux since this morning. I am 
running 4.8.1 since two weeks ago, but there was an update to 4.8.1-r1 three 
days ago, and I did not log out of KDE since today. But there was also an 
update to Xorg yesterday, from 1.11.4 to 1.12.0.

The error message when started from a terminal is:

The program 'claws-mail' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 55930 error_code 3 request_code 151 minor_code 3)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

And it also crashes when I run it in another window manager like IceWM or 
Enlightenment, with KDE running at that time or not. It even does so when I 
rename the .claws-mail directory so it starts with default configuration.

However, it does _not_ crash when I run it with a new user with empty $HOME 
directory. Unless... this user is running KDE. But it only crashes from 
within KDE, it still does not crash in Enlightenment then. So, this user 
cannot run Claws from KDE, while I cannot use it at all now.

I did not investigate this further, I probably could do some config 
bisecting, but I have no spare time at the moment. Did you also upgrade X to 
12.0?

P.S. when sending this mail, KMail asks for the SMTP server's password. Why 
doesn't it use the KDE wallet this time? These are those problems that made 
me switch to Claws. I'll restart Kontact and try again.

	Wonko
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