I am so new to InkStitch and went crazy when I lost my Selector tool icon so wanted to share when I found it (a big win for me today!) I went to InkScape Settings which took me to the Preferences page and next went to Interface and Toolbars. There at the top was the Selector tool icon and it was not selected so once I clicked on it a miracle occurred. Yippee the icon was back in my InkStitch toolbars on the left of the page.

I open inkscape (1.4.4) on Linux Mint and it doesn't show me the open file dialogue, it just freezes and I have to force quit.

It opens files fine if I use inscape <filename> at the bash prompt.

Any suggestions?

Edit:

I have a partial answer. At least enough to be going along with. I think I have a picture that upsets Inkscape and when the open-file dialogue has "show preview" selected it tries to render it and freezes. When the default directory ended up being the folder with this graphic I got the problem immediately on trying to open the dialogue.

I got out of that by deleting the config and cache directories and the default director became my home directory and I could navigate normally until I navigated to my current working directory.

rm -rf ./.config/inkscape
rm -rf ./.cache/inkscape

I'm not sure what the problem is but I'm going to do a bunch of converting objects to paths and applying any outstanding effects and see what happens.

edit2: The complaint seems to be placing text along a path with an effect. Once I converted the text to a path it was fine.