I'm using Kubuntu 16.04.4

I installed Autokey, but every time I start to configure it so I can use it to post the words I want it to print for me in and editor it
freezes.
I have re-installed it four to five times now and nothing changes, so
I started it up from the terminal and I got the below print out in the
terminal before Autokey started up. I'm sure it has everything to do
with all the freezing, if not maybe someone could tell me what it all
means::

$ autokey
X protocol error:
<class 'Xlib.error.BadAccess'>: code = 10, resource_id = 613, sequence_number = 23, major_opcode = 33, minor_opcode = 0
X protocol error:
<class 'Xlib.error.BadAccess'>: code = 10, resource_id = 613, sequence_number = 24, major_opcode = 33, minor_opcode = 0
X protocol error:
<class 'Xlib.error.BadAccess'>: code = 10, resource_id = 613, sequence_number = 25, major_opcode = 33, minor_opcode = 0
X protocol error:
<class 'Xlib.error.BadAccess'>: code = 10, resource_id = 613, sequence_number = 26, major_opcode = 33, minor_opcode = 0

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

While waiting for a responds on the Autokey errors I began trying other apps
to see if a similar problem occurred, and sure enough here's what I got when
I tried to open Cherrytree::

$ cherrytree
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/cherrytree", line 72, in <module>
f_main(args)
File "/usr/bin/cherrytree", line 50, in f_main
main.main(args)
File "/usr/share/cherrytree/modules/main.py", line 219, in main
CherryTreeHandler(args, lang_str)
File "/usr/share/cherrytree/modules/main.py", line 64, in __init__
self.window_open_new(filepath_fix(args.filepath), args.node, True, True if args.filepath else False)
File "/usr/share/cherrytree/modules/main.py", line 69, in window_open_new
window = core.CherryTree(self.lang_str, filepath, node_name, self, is_startup, is_arg, False)
File "/usr/share/cherrytree/modules/core.py", line 70, in __init__
config.config_file_load(self)
File "/usr/share/cherrytree/modules/config.py", line 91, in config_file_load
config.read(cons.CONFIG_PATH)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 305, in read
self._read(fp, filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 512, in _read
raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: /home/jar/.config/cherrytree/config.cfg, line: 1
'bj\xef\xa8m\x7f\xc9\x14\x83%\xd1!\xda\x9e\xc3D\xf1\xee\x1b\x1dQI\xe8\x8a\x9f\x15\xef\xfae\xe6(~^5\x d7\xf3\xf16dUl\x01\xc8_\xa3\x07\x03\x8doUt\x1c\x0b\xea\xbe#\xb2+\x95\x8e\x89\x89\x84z\xe0>\xf8\xb1\x fe"\xbe\xbe-\xf9\xb9\xce>\x91\x90\x9a\xec\xd8\x17\xf0\x00\xd2\x17j\xf0R\xed\xfd,$\x1b\xdc\xec\xd8\x17\xf0\x00\xd 2\x17j\x18\xfe\xf2\xff,$\x1b\xdc\xba\xdal}\x9b|y\x9d\x10\x88\x08 ~+\xc9EP\x890\xbe*\xb7H\xfd\xeb\xaf\xa4\xa3\xd5\xa3\xafLm\xfa\xf3n\xba\x06\x1f8HGm[\x1b\x16.\xe8\xd0\xd0h\xcedo%d(\xa8\x96\xb2,<v\x13\xb1Y:\xb7E%\xc6\xf0\xf3z\r-\x9fn\x07\\t\x8f\x82\xe3\xdf\xb7I\x8f#\x97z\x9c\xd0\xb2R\xf3j\xf5I\x7f\x9b|y\x9d\x10\x88\x08 ~+\xc9E\x13\'\xe8\x0f\xff-\xe8\x95\xe7\x01\r\x00\xd3\xdb\xe4#\\\xa8\xab\x88\x0f\x1d\x0e_\x93Yn\xeco&FD\xec\xd8\x17\xf0\x00\xd2 \x17j\x18\xfe\xf2\xff\xae$\x1b\xdc\xec\xd8\x17\xf0\x00\xd2\x17j\x18\xfe\xf2\xff,$\x1b\xdc\xec\xd8\x1 7\xf0\x00\xd2\x17j\x18\xfe\xf2\xff,$\x1b\xdc\xdc\x9cT\xc0\x9bt\x9f\xc2`$\x0b\x9eIr\x1e\x7f\xba\xdal} \x9b|y\x9d\xefw\xf7\xdf\x81\xd46\xba\x81sa\x0e\x0f\x0b\x1f\x9a>\xb0K\x15\xb9\x1e\x9f\xcd\x0b\x8e;_\x d4@Y]\x87!\x17\xf7\xef\x1a\xa0\xf0\xa8\xc1\x97\t\x11\x84\xf4+\x07\xba\xce\xba\xca\x1fp\x85\xb1\x8b\xaf\xb a\x9cv\x85Q\xa0\xf0X\n'


Cherrytree will not start up and I re-installed it two times and nothing has changed.
I'm wondering if I might have a system wide problem?
Any help will be apreciated.fb

autokey:
you don't really need that in linux. use something like xdotool or xmacro or your desktop environment's builtin hotkey functionality.

cherrytree:
it clearly says:
something is wrong with that file.
try starting from zero by renaming /home/jar/.config/cherrytree to /home/jar/.config/cherrytree.bak or something.

btw, both are python applications, maybe relevant, or not because so much is python on linux.

Thanks ondoho
I'm having a lot of other problems that I'm discovering like
freezing up and I can't shut down. It's become more like the
blue screen of death. I'm checking some other distros to try
and I think I'm going to give up on Kubuntu 16.04 unless I
go to a later version.
So, thanks again for your help, I'm still trying to decide on
my nest step!fb