I've managed to fix it by using NVidia driver version 173.14.09.
Possibly the drivers are to blame?
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amsn crashes X when you try to change display picture with compiz enabled
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190531
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Bugs, whic
Yup, having the same problem. Graphics are NVidia 8400 GS (driver is
169.12), also using Compiz and aMSN. On 8.04 Hardy 32bit.
X Window System crashes when changing display picture in aMSN.
Tried llove's fix (& Scorp, same thing, cheers) - replacing the
tkfbox.tcl file (in the .tar.gz, under Libr