View and Copy System Information

When asking for help or reporting a bug, you may be asked to provide your system information. Inkscape provides easy ways to copy information about your environment relevant to developers.

To copy your system information:

  1. Select Help ‣ About Inkscape.

  2. Click on the bug icon at the bottom left.

Your system information is now copied to the clipboard.

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System Information Details

The system information contains the Inkscape version, versions of libraries Inkscape uses, and the version of your operating system. It is designed to inform people about your environment without leaking your private info (such as folder paths).

The Inkscape version may look like the following:

Inkscape 1.5-dev (755fd8734f, 2025-05-05, custom)

In the parentheses, the values are the git commit hash, the date of that commit, and whether your build is a custom build.

The libraries shown in the next part are:

  • Glib and GTK: The widget toolkit.

  • glibmm and gtkmm: The C++ language bindings of Glib and GTK.

  • libxml2 and libxslt: The libraries used to parse and interface with SVG files.

  • Cairo: The rendering library used by the canvas and various output options.

  • Pango: The text and typography layout engine.

  • Harfbuzz: The text shaping engine used by both Inkscape and Pango.

  • Poppler: The PDF library used to import and parse PDFs.

The last line is the OS version, which differs depending on your operating system or distribution.