I have several distros in separate partitions on my hard drives, and I use GIMP fairly often. I recently installed Sparky and discovered that any time I do an Edit / Copy in GIMP, the program exits. Since the operation is copying data to the clipboard, I thought about Qlipper, since it is not installed on any of my other distros.
Sure enough, I used Synaptic to remove Qlipper, and now GIMP doesn't crash any more.
Lane