I can confirm this bug. It has to do with GTK library. I use a (nasty) workaround with an older version of GTK only for gimv. /usr/bin$ cat gimv #!/bin/sh LD_PRELOAD=/home/ps/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 exec gimv.orig file /home/fritz/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 /home/fritz/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: symbolic link to `libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1200.9'