Hi, I'm not that techie as you are. But try hard. I experienced the same crash when clicking on working area in Inkscape. After I read what you had reported about a possible connection between the touchpad and this bug, I disabled the touchpad-indicator that freezes my touchpad. Then I started Inkscape, and no crash of Xorg.
I also have a laptop (Toshiba Satellite C845). Ubuntu 12.10 Gnome-Shell 3.6.2 Inkscape 0.48.3.1 r9886 (29 January 2013) Celia -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1081108 Title: Xorg crash after clicking on workspace in inkscape To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1081108/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
