I'm using Inkscape on my Eee PC, with a screen resolution of 1024x600. This is too small to fit the whole UI.

It seems that I cannot reconfigure the menus in any helpful way. I cannot remove icons selectively either. There is an option in the preferences to use smaller icons, but nothing happens when I use it.

I can detach the left menu and leave it floating around to get access to the options (palettes, etc.) at the bottom of the UI.

Am I missing something? Inkscape is still perfectly usable, but it's a lot more frustrating to use this way, as I'm sure you can imagine.

the current development version has had work done on it to allow it to resize on smaller screens, and should be usable on the Eee

Thanks Simarilius. You pointed me in the right direction, but I was unprepared for the journey.

I spent a bit of time in the #inkscape IRC room and a very helpful chap by the name of _MMA_ held my hand as I attempted to compile for the first time. It didn't work for me, but that's probably user error at my end.

Now there's an updated PPA for Inkscape Testers page which should make the job easier, but I still can't figure it out. I've added the sources:



and reinstalled Inkscape, but it seems to be the same old version I had before. The newer versions don't seem to be showing up. In '0.46-0ubuntu2', what does the '0ubuntu2' bit mean? I currently have '0.46-2ubuntu2', but it seems to be the earlier version...

Anyway, my question is... how?

Fixed, thanks to IRC help:

Add: "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape-nightly/ubuntu intrepid main" to your sources.list.

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install inkscape-devel