Ok, I want to edit a fill patters in .46, and I follow the directions, and when I turn on the node tool and select the object with a pattern fill I want to edit, HA HA! The handles that are supposed to appear that allows the pattern to be scaled, rotated, etc, don't appear.

I've wasted hours on this, what is the magic solution?

EDIT: I finally found the controls for those functions, but they were very far away from the object and I could not see the object's detail while I was editing, it, making the controls useless. How do I get the controls on the border with the other controls?

Click on the X and drag closer to the object. Its a control to move the pattern but it also moves the pattern controls.