Dear Georg,Don't ask me why but in order for the Qt4 frontend to work correctly, I had to modify the Makefile and remove the '-mms-bitfields' option from CXXFLAGS. Without this, under Windows, the QWorkarea has an unchangeable size of -743x1 and the work area remains black. That's maybe also a solution for the slowness and crashes you have seen under X11.
Could you please modify the autotools script so that the qt4 frontend is compiled without '-mms-bitfields' ?
Thanks in advance, Abdel.