You wrote
Is there some trick to make Inkscape 0.44pre4 work on SuSE 10.1? I compiled it from sources and now I can't get it working (SIGSEGVs). I looked from sources and gdb it and find out it's something to do with UTF-8. Some one got clue how to make this work??
First, it would be nice if you could please open a bug report and include the gdb output with it. Also, what window manager do you use?
Then, have you had a look at the 0.44 Release Notes? http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?Release_Notes#Known_problems
Especially the Composite, defective themes and maybe libgc-6.7 sections would apply here.
For the record, the shipped inkscape-0.43 on SuSE 10.1 + wmaker works fine here, but I'll try to reproduce your problem, you just have to help me a bit.
ralf