ted not working on Debian 12

[mycomm]

When I try to run ted, it simply returns without opening an editor.
I have sym links to xterm and have the EDITOR environment variable set. I have tried both vi through a command window and the KDE GUI editor kate, with similar results.

mged> draw sphere1
mged> sed sphere1
mged> ted
done
ID_SPH
mged>

From /var/log/syslog:

2023-07-28T11:02:21.413182-04:00 gulfstream kwin_x11[1907]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 4491, resource id: 115343421, major code: 15 (QueryTree), minor code: 0
2023-07-28T11:02:21.413931-04:00 gulfstream kwin_x11[1907]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 4563, resource id: 115343366, major code: 15 (QueryTree), minor code: 0
2023-07-28T11:02:21.417862-04:00 gulfstream kwin_x11[1907]: kwin_core: XCB error: 152 (BadDamage), sequence: 4652, resource id: 17687162, major code: 143 (DAMAGE), minor code: 3 (Subtract)
2023-07-28T11:02:33.343213-04:00 gulfstream kwin_x11[1907]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 11486, resource id: 115344071, major code: 15 (QueryTree), minor code: 0
2023-07-28T11:02:33.345933-04:00 gulfstream kwin_x11[1907]: kwin_core: XCB error: 152 (BadDamage), sequence: 11580, resource id: 17691377, major code: 143 (DAMAGE), minor code: 3 (Subtract)

I believe I have issues with QT and XCB when mged tries to open an editor window, but I have no experience with these tools.
Does anyone have any insight?
Milan