Comment 19 for bug 190424

Since I was the original reporter, I should provide more recent feedback: on Kubuntu Karmic 9.10, running Inkscape 0.47pre4 r22446 (Oct 14 2009), this issue is resolved for me. Thanks to the developers for a wonderful program and a wonderful bugfix!

The screenshots on the page that Charlied linked to seem different from the problem I was originally experiencing, so it is likely a slightly different issue.