[NBLUG/talk] GNOME apps stopped working in KDE?

[Troy Arnold]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 09:10:40PM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that GNOME-based applications released in the last few 
> months seem to fail if you try to run them under KDE?  I'm getting errors of 
> this general form:
> 
> *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x080fd2a8 ***
> 
> 
> I'm running Debian/testing, and I recently reinstalled so I'm pretty sure it's 
> not a configuration error specific to my system.

Try a different gtk theme.  In particular try one that isn't based on
gtk-smooth-engine.

I'm making this suggestion based upon information I got while searching
Debian bugs here: 
<http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist>