Comment 2 for bug 1198597

A workaround has been committed upstream to master, gtk-3-8 as well as gtk-2-24.

According to GTK+ devs, the underlying issue needs to be addressed in Inkscape itself: please see the discussion in bugzilla for additional details (comment #30 and later):
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694273#c30>