Hi. try starting Inkscape from the command line using the following command; unset GTK_IM_MODULE && inkscape The && characters are two ampersand's - they look strange on this forum. RGDS Ragnar Thanks Ragnar, I can confirm that on my system this seems to fix the problem as well. But...

Hello, I am the original poster in this thread. I recently acquired a different computer and did a totally fresh installation of Lubuntu 14.10 and Inkscape 48.x (the same versions as on the computer described at the top of this thread). The text-box freezing problem re-occurs on this "new"...

I ran Inkscape from the command line, but I'm not sure what that was meant to accomplish. While in that session I created a text box and started to type text into it. It froze again. No messages appeard in the View/message window that you suggested I open. I started another session and opened a text...

Thank you for your reply. This is a circa 2008-2009 era machine: Pentium 4 single core (hyperthreading) running at 2.8GHz. 3GB RAM. 32-bits. So is it necessary for me to run WInXP and Lubuntu? Yes, with these resources. However, with these OSes installed, the system runs extremely well and is quite ...

Hi, I am using Inkscape 0.48.4 r9939 running on Lubuntu Trusty Tahr (Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS). I am not a new user to Inkscape, having used it for several years under Windows XP. I switched to Lubuntu about eight months ago. I now have a dual-boot Lubuntu and Windows XP sytem. Whenever I create a text bo...