@Zak McKracken - do you happen to have an older GTK+ version installed on openSuSe 11.3? The Gtk-critical warnings from Inskcape had been tracked in Bug #576852 “(inkscape:1815): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_misc_set_alignment: assertion `GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed on Start”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/576852>
They are limited to GTK+ < 2.22.0 and no longer occur with recent GTK+ versions. I doubt though that they cause the delay on startup - this is more related to fonts loading and preparing the GUI (rescaling the icons for the buttons for example - do you happen to use a custom gtk theme with special icons sizes?).
@Zak McKracken - do you happen to have an older GTK+ version installed on openSuSe 11.3? The Gtk-critical warnings from Inskcape had been tracked in set_alignment: assertion `GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed on Start” /bugs.launchpad .net/inkscape/ +bug/576852>
Bug #576852 “(inkscape:1815): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_misc_
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They are limited to GTK+ < 2.22.0 and no longer occur with recent GTK+ versions. I doubt though that they cause the delay on startup - this is more related to fonts loading and preparing the GUI (rescaling the icons for the buttons for example - do you happen to use a custom gtk theme with special icons sizes?).