AFAICT, it's a bug with imlib1 and the X compositing extension. (see http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/RELNOTES5.html#40)
A temporary workaround might be to always force the environment variable, ala the attached patch. (works for me(tm)). ** Attachment added: "Hacky fix for qiv." http://librarian.launchpad.net/4960706/qiv-hack.diff -- qiv fails to start: Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) https://launchpad.net/bugs/41056 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs