Could you get a backtrace on feisty without gtk2-engines-gtk-qt installed? do you have a .gtkrc-2.0? what it contain? could you copy that to a comment?
-- GTK applications crash sometime with gdk_events functions to the backtrace https://launchpad.net/bugs/71345 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs