I launched Kdict from the K menu, typed in a word to look up, pressed the Return key which caused a crash (signal 11). Here is the tail of my xsession-errors file, which means very little to me. What's causing this? Is some setting wrong? Marc X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x4404bca [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'kdict' crashing... kdict: Fatal IO error: client killed X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x4a00011 tdelibs14-trinity [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'kdict' crashing... kdict: Fatal IO error: client killed X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x3200011 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x3200009 kdesktop: WARNING: failed to obtain ELF icon: ELF resource section not found kdesktop: WARNING: failed to obtain ELF icon: ELF resource section not found [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'kdict' crashing... kdict: Fatal IO error: client killed X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x3200011 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x3200009 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I tried it once more and got this output : ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x2c000b0 [kdesktop_lock] Warning: unable to create control socket '/tmp/tdesocket-global/kdesktoplockcontrol-0'. Interactive logon modules may not function properly. X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1c0001d konsole: WARNING: Unable to use /opt/trinity/share/apps/konsole/screen.desktop konsole: WARNING: Unable to use /opt/trinity/share/apps/konsole/mc.desktop [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'kdict' crashing... kdict: Fatal IO error: client killed X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x4a00011 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x4a00009 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ When I try a kdict search from the console, I get : ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x4a00009 [dcopserver] DCOP aborting (delayed) call from 'anonymous-3437' to 'kdict' X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 19 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x4a00006