At first I was quite annoyed that Konsole began crashing on me out of the blue (though others have filed bugs with KDE for the same crash message). Then I remembered there's literally like hundreds of X-based terminal emulators for POSIX-ish systems, almost all of which fit the category of "good enough".

So, I'll just shuffle the deck and draw... ROXTerm. Yeah, a gnome-terminal-alike without GNOME dependencies should do.