4.4.9c started working fine, until I changed some of the in game options, making it crash and saying this when trying to restart:
Tried rebooting, using different versions, recompiling and all kinds of cargo cult troubleshooting. It turned out, all that was needed was to delete the file .tomenetrc in /home/user/.BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 1 (X_CreateWindow)
hopefully useful to somebody