Hello,

I often use the following dialog box:

• Fill and Stroke
• Layer
• Aligner et distribute

I'm on Windows XP with the 0.47 Inkscape version. So every time I start Inkscape these dialog boxes may not appear (although I've used the last time).

My question is: how to popup this dialogs box each time you start Inkscape ?

Welcome to our forums, sphaira
I've been hoping someone else would answer this, because I'm not sure if it can be done or not. I'm guessing not. But I've seen so many topics in these forums where a script or custom piece of codework can be done, to cause certain things to happen in Inkscape. So I'm thinking there may be some way to do this. Hopefully someone else will chime in with that info...

Wish I could be more helpful
But again, welcome aboard

Ok, thanks.

I think it is useful to look to the API in python. I will look if we can create a startup script.

may be, can you give me some site on the python script (I am very familiar with python) ?

Thank you

Hi!

did you find a solution for the problem?

I'd also like to have kind of a default environment at startup, like dialogs, dialog position (I work with 2 monitors).

Kind regards
BB

No solution at this moment.

sphaira wrote:I think it is useful to look to the API in python. I will look if we can create a startup script.

The feature to save and restore the state of the dialog windows is not yet implemented and can't be done with the current script extensions API (AFAIU).

The feature request is tracked in Bug #171579 “Make inkscape remember dialogs window status” (It might get addressed once Inkscape has migrated to use libgdl as external dependency (work in progress) instead of a private, modified copy based on an older version of gdl).

I find a simple solution (this solution is for MS windows but it could be done with alias in Linux):

• Create a shortcut of Inkscape.exe
• In the property dialog add after Inkscape.exe the arguments of verb like this: --verb DialogFillStroke --verb DialogLayers

And that work fine. You can have the list of all verb in this page (or use --verb-list in the console but don't work in MS Windows).