I have the issue too. $ sudo dmesg | tail -n 2[ 6236.391791] inkscape[14548]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f341b6aa214 sp 00007ffd464c3ee8 error 4 in libgdkmm-3.0.so.1.1.0[33214,7f341b6a3000+1c000] likely on CPU 5 (core 1, socket 0) [ 6236.391816] Code: 07 48 8b 40 e8 48 8b 7c 07 08 e8 47 a9 ff ff 85 c0 0f 95 c0 48 83 c4 08 c3 90 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa <48> 8b 07 48 8b 40 e8 48 8b 7c 07 08 e9 1b 95 ff ff 90 66 2e 0f 1f
Inkscape runs successfully with: GDK_BACKEND=x11 inkscape