I realize this is an old thread, but the "unresponsive handles" issue has been bugging me for a long time, so I wanted to add my thanks for Lazur's tip about spiro mode! What a relief...

Works flawlessly with El Capitan! Before installing Inkscape, I first downloaded the newest version of XQuartz 2.7.8, installed it, logged out, then logged back in (something about making XQuartz 2.7.8 the default instead of old X11 so Inkscape will run properly in El Capitan). Installation of Inksc...

I appreciate the tip to check the Background settings in the upper right corner of 'Document Properties' (File>Document Properties>Page tab). It solved a similar but different problem which I'll post here in case someone else has a similar issue... I exported a bitmap of a b/w technical drawing. Obj...

This was driving me nuts too! I finally got everything set so that snapping to grid works when creating the object, when editing the shape of the object, and when dragging the object. Here's an image showing the grid options I activated to get snapping to work the way I want it to: https://lh3.googl...