Some googling found me this thread: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=18042
The suggestion is to unset GTK_IM_MODULE to solve the issue...
So far, this bug has not happened when inkscape is called with GTK_IM_MODULE unset (by default it was set to xim). So maybe this is actually a bug in the xim Gtk im module?
Some googling found me this thread: http:// www.inkscapefor um.com/ viewtopic. php?f=29& t=18042
The suggestion is to unset GTK_IM_MODULE to solve the issue...
So far, this bug has not happened when inkscape is called with GTK_IM_MODULE unset (by default it was set to xim). So maybe this is actually a bug in the xim Gtk im module?