Comment 1 for bug 1445526

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.