Comment 19 for bug 326340

Unfortunately earlier commenters could not agree about the scope of this report (which was originally about a specific issue of Inkscape with the win32 backend of GTK+: artifacts (leftovers) on the canvas area when dragging a floating dialog), and decided to use it as (unrelated) kind of semi-metabug for limitations of the UI on small screens (netbooks) affecting all platforms. IMHO this makes this report unusable - or at least unnecessarily difficult - to further triage and progress tracking with regard to the various mentioned UI problems.

@David Wenk - about your issue: your screenshot doesn't actually show Inkscape and the issue you describe, so it's impossible to tell whether what your problem actually is. Since you are using Mint 13, and do not mention using a small screen either, this report (bug #326340) is certainly not something related to what you want to report. More likely your problem could be related to this report we got lately from Mint users:
- Bug #1008039 "Inkscape Displays Blank Dialog During Filter (Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon)"
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1008039>