Hi, Benjamin -

> But the window in the screenshot is called "Apport"? Are you sure?

Yeah, fair question.  The apport bug reporting program lets packages
provide custom scripts that help handle bug reports in their area.  You
can see them under /usr/share/apport/package-hooks .  Brian's referring
to /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_xorg.py , which is provided by
xdiagnose, and used by many X-related packages.  As you can see by the
many symlinks to it in that directory!

> Do you have a quick shortcut for a (preferably harmless) crash that
will trigger Apport so I can click around and get to terms with the
current setup?

You can start a program, then kill it with a signal 11, to make it
segfault, from a terminal.  Like, in a terminal:

  $ xterm &
  [2] 10169
  $ kill -11 %2

When you run it in the background, with '&' after the command, bash
shows you its job id, 2 in this case, and the system PID, 10169.  Bash's
builtin 'kill' interprets a plain number as a pid, and %number as a job
id.  So

  kill -11 10169

would have been the same in this case.

Hope some of this info can help you keep digging.  Thanks.

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