From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux) Description of problem: In situation when program tries to open new window which should get focus on it kwin crashes. It mostly happens with gtk programs (OpenOffice is almost unusable beacuse of this) but also in KDE programs. I use fresh installation of Red Hat 8.0 on IBM A31 laptop, Bluecurve theme and KDE environrment. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open kppp 2. Click Setup 3. Click on existing account and click edit 4. Click Add new phone number Actual Results: kwin crashes, so it has to be startted manually Additional info: here is backtrace log from kguard: (no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 8192 (LWP 1954)] 0x420ae169 in wait4 () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 #0 0x420ae169 in wait4 () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 #1 0x4212a2d0 in __DTOR_END__ () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 #2 0x40c20c63 in waitpid () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 #3 0x4039a1c5 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(int) () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #4 <signal handler called> #5 0x41ac8d90 in KWinInternal::RedHatClient::addClientButtons(QString const&, bool) () from /usr/lib/kde3/kwin_bluecurve.so #6 0x41ac8b29 in KWinInternal::RedHatClient::RedHatClient(KWinInternal::Worksp ace*, unsigned long, QWidget*, char const*) () from /usr/lib/kde3/kwin_bluecurve.so #7 0x41acbc9b in allocate () from /usr/lib/kde3/kwin_bluecurve.so #8 0x400a81d6 in KWinInternal::PluginMgr::allocateClient(KWinInternal::Workspa ce*, unsigned long, bool) () from /usr/lib/kwin.so #9 0x4007b411 in KWinInternal::Workspace::clientFactory(unsigned long) () from /usr/lib/kwin.so #10 0x4007c3c8 in KWinInternal::Workspace::init() () from /usr/lib/kwin.so #11 0x4007bf21 in KWinInternal::Workspace::Workspace(bool) () from /usr/lib/kwin.so #12 0x400a1dcc in Application::Application() () from /usr/lib/kwin.so #13 0x400a236e in kdemain () from /usr/lib/kwin.so #14 0x0804857b in main () #15 0x420158d4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
It seems that problem is in Bluecurve window decoration. Since I changed it to Quartz window decoration, everything looks fine. I will continue testing...
it's a bug in redhat-arwork. Please upgrade redhat-arwork-0.40-1 or newer, it will fix this bug. You will find it in next rawhide release.