After working with inkscape, my mouse cursor tells me to wait and is not going back to normal anymore. Even if I close inkscape, the cursor stays in waiting mode, and even if other programs change the cursor to pointer or something else, the cursor stays in waiting mode.
Seems that this is not a new problem:
http://superuser.com/questions/763042/inkscape-causes-permanent-waiting-cursor
My system:
* ArchLinux (up to date)
* Mate
* Compiz 0.9 + gtk-window-manager
* Inkscape 0.91 r13725 (Apr 4 2015)
* Intel HD graphics
* no special hardware (e.g. no tablet)
What I've done:
I opened an AI-file (http://sm-artists.com/?page_id=925), this file contained an element in the foreground but nothing in the background. I clicked on the background (on the white page area) and then the cursor started to spin and never stopped.
Workaround (or not):
l0co (superuser-link above) reports that he could avoid this by disabling tablet support or something like that. I don't have the mentioned preferences option, so I don't know how to do this. I also don't know if the cursor goes back to normal then, or if this just avoids the problem in future.
This is also affecting me using LinuxMint with MATE 1.8.1 and Inkscape 0.48. It seem pretty random what actions/tools cause the permanent loading cursor glitch; sometimes it happens when simply copying-and-pasting a layer, other times when resizing or moving one.
There doesn't appear to be any useful command-line output, and killing the inkscape process with kill -9 does not restore the cursor; the only solution to get the cursor back to normal is to log out and log back in again. Very irritating little glitch, indeed.