display align and distribute

1885 · Postby **1885** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 1:47 am

I'm running Inkscape on Linux and Windows.
We used to see the align and distribute menu. It's not a big deal but that menu is nice to use.
Is there a way to get it back.

Janne · Postby **Janne** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 1:56 am

It doesn't show using View - Show/Hide toolbars?

1885 · Postby **1885** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 2:03 am

No . it does not. Right now I'm using Linux (Centos and Gentoo)

Lazur · Postby **Lazur** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 2:31 am

Hi.

Try the live chatboard.
Probably gtk/system related problem, and it may get the fastest solve there:
https://inkscape.org/en/community/discussion/

Postby **brynn** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 3:18 pm

Weird thread!!

If you're using a development version of 0.91, it might be that you just closed it. Try opening by clicking Object menu > Align and Distribute.

tylerdurden · Postby **tylerdurden** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 1:55 am

Not a toolbar, it's a dialog, so F12 is the show/hide shortcut.

If that doesn't get it back, maybe it's off-screen somewhere?

Exit from Inkscape and open this file with a text editor:

~/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml

...look for:

id="dialogs">

...and you'll see an XML record for each of the dialog windows with their positions set with something like:

x="456"
y="231"

...just replace those numbers with something like 100 and 100 - and the next time you open Inkscape, the dialog will default to opening at that location...then you can move it someplace else, cleanly exit inkscape again...and everything will be OK from then on.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1244397

Hope this helps...

tylerdurden · Postby **tylerdurden** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 1:59 am

PS

Within the GUI, there is also a shortcut to move the dialogs: Alt+Spacebar+M, then tapping an arrow key will cause the dialog window outline to follow the pointer... click to drop onscreen.

~suv · Postby **~suv** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 3:28 am

tylerdurden wrote:Not a toolbar, it's a dialog, so F12 is the show/hide shortcut.

If that doesn't get it back, maybe it's off-screen somewhere?
(…)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1244397

Bug #1244397 is a problem specific to Inkscape on (Mac) OS X 10.9 or later, and does not track issues reported by Linux or Windows users. AFAICT 1885 only mentioned using Linux and Windows …

[edit] Off-screen Inkscape dialogs on Windows are tracked here: Bug #379463. AFAICT there are no such reports from Linux users so far.[/edit]

tylerdurden · Postby **tylerdurden** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 8:29 am

Ja, I didn't mean to imply that the issue was the bug, but to indicate the source of the workaround for off screen windows.

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