Peter Laws wrote:

> Two issues with Konsole, possibly related to the video driver (card is
> an "AMD FirePro V4900" with their drivers).

I recently had an experience with older ATI card - the drivers do not work
with newer kernels. Especially I tried ubuntu 16 LTS, but had to roll back
to 12. check if your card is supported in newer kernel.

As of the other issues someone might be more helpful. I am on debian.

regards