Hello Laurent,
I tested using the current AppImage as well as within Qt Creator using the latest Git clone, and I encountered frequent program crashes. However, I was unable to reproduce these crashes reliably.
The crashes occurred :
- when clicking the Line Tool button in the diagram editor;
- when dragging a contact element into the diagram;
- when using the mouse wheel (this happened frequently).Furthermore, I noticed that when zooming, the contact lines in the contact mirror disappear (see photos).
I do not use the ccrossrefitem.patch
This is a SIGSEGV (segfault) in QElectroTech on Debian, crashing during text rendering. Here's what the stack trace tells us:
Root cause: crash in the Wayland Qt client while drawing cached glyphs
The main thread (
#159466) crashed at:

libQt5WaylandClient.so.5 → drawCachedGlyphs → drawTextItem → QTextLine::draw → QGraphicsTextItem::paint → QGraphicsView::paintEvent
The crash happens inside libQt5WaylandClient when Qt tries to render text (glyphs) in a QGraphicsTextItem — likely a label or annotation in a schematic — via the Wayland backend.
Most likely causes and fixes to try, in order:
Force X11 instead of Wayland — this is the most common fix for this kind of crash. Run QElectroTech with:

bash
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb qelectrotech
If that works, make it permanent by adding QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb to your ~/.profile or creating a wrapper script.
Disable GPU/hardware acceleration — the libgallium threads (Mesa's Gallium3D) visible in the other threads suggest GPU rendering is active. Try:

bash
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 qelectrotech














