Will do.

Meanwhile, I put it up in the tips and tricks forum:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=162

Just thought that enough people do care about this - for a start my friends who are also new to inkscape will benefit from this information.

If you want to permanently save some of your inkscape preferences, like having the grid enabled whenever you start inkscape with specified grid spacings, etc., you can do this by saving the inkscape document with all your preferences as default.svg in the folder /usr/share/inkscape/templates/ From t...

Yes - the grid is now fixed! It does not change when I zoom in or out. But, where do I save the default.svg file. I tried saving one at my home directory, and one within ~/.inkscape, but neither seemed to pick it up.... Thanks again guys for such prompt responses. Okay found the answer: some one mig...

Thanks guys for the default.svg thingy. I guess I have to save it within ~/.inkscape/

Hi guys, I am a new inkscape user, migrating from xfig (got tired of entering text in xfig), and have quite a few questions of how to accomplish things in inkscape. I have searched the manuals and the forums and the mailing lists, and came up zilch. Your answers will be much appreciated. Here are a ...