[arch-general] Chromium crashes KDE 4.5.1

[Peter Lewis]

On Tuesday 14 September 2010 at 02:17 Madhurya Kakati wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Adriano Moura <adriano.lols at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > 2010/9/13 Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com>
> > 
> >>  On 13.09.2010 18:38, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I am using Chromium 6.0.x with KDE 4.5.1. Whenever any website
> >> > presents a dialog box asking for confirmation for something (for
> >> > example in gmail if i close the tab without logging out it presents a
> >> > dialog box asking for confirmation) and after i click on any button on
> >> > it the kde panel crashes. Also, i suspect plasma crashes too but
> >> > applications that are open including chromium do not crash. This
> >> > happened even in KDE 4.4.However it happens in KDE only and not in any
> >> > other DE. Please tell me why this happens and how to stop it from
> >> > happening.
> >> > Thanks.
> >> > 
> >> > P.S- Telling me to stop using KDE is not an appropriate answer :P
> >> 
> >> Using that exact setup and haven't seen this crash yet. Do you have any
> >> error logs after starting the panel manually?
> > 
> > Is qt-gtk-engine used as the widget theme for gtk apps?
> 
> Yes i am using the GTK engine. is it causing the problem?

Well it seems like that's not necessarily (the whole of) the problem, but I 
have noticed qt-gtk-engine crashes some programs sometimes. A good bet is just 
to try it again using some standard bundled theme first and see if the same 
behaviour is reproduced.

Cheers,

Pete.