Did you say you were using SuSE? Can you use the notation editor in RG? The metronome window has notes in it, and SuSE 10.whatever-it-is ships with a version of Freetype that hangs when rendering RG's notation font. If this is the problem, search the Rosegarden trackers for SuSE notation hang (or similar) for details and a fix (to the platform library, not to RG). Chris