Comment 7 for bug 210456

I found a patch which purports to solve this problem on Debian systems -- see https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1908833&group_id=39083&atid=424297 -- [ 1908833 ] Fix segfault on options screen. I have attached the file I downloaded from that location (it is not my work, so credit or blame goes to the original author of the patch, Nick Gasson - (nickga). If this could be tested to see if it works, that would be great (I would do it, but I don't know how to appliy a patch to a file using a diff file -- I'm still new at Linux). Thanks to anyone that can help.