You can use your own image for this purpose or have it from the internet. You can add more panels or tools to this screen as per your requirement.įor doing this task in Inkscape we need an image because i will show cropping by an example of an image so let us have an image. Below this bar there is another bar which is the Properties bar of active tool or image (on which you are working), moving to downward direction on user screen there is three sections in which at the left side there is tool panel, at the center we have display window area of document and at right side some navigation tools. But I am guessing Inkscape tries to get some numbers from the WM, and if there isn’t one…Ġx00e0000b 0 BIO-C-15 cycle.We can do it by just following few simple steps but let us first have an introduction of the User interface of Inkscape software so that you can understand the terms which i will use throughout this article for explaining each step.Īt the top, you will find a bar which we is called as the Menu bar and it has a number of menus such as File, Edit, View and some other.

I mostly use Cygwin by running XWin Server, which then sits in the Windows tray and lets me run X applications without needing a window manager. Still goes to top-left, but now it’s top-left of the FVWM desktop, which I can see. Launched FVWM and launched Inkscape from a terminal inside FVWM… Tried wmctrl, just to get window properties: $ wmctrl -lĪ-ha! Perhaps the problem is because I am not running it through a window manager… what if I do? Now, I’ve got 2 monitors, and the right-hand one is taller than the leftt, and I suspect it’s putting the window at the top-left of where it would be if the left-hand monitor was a big as the right. I launch Inkscape, and it’s fine, then I use the Inkscape dialog to open a file and, whoosh, the Inkscape window relocates off the top-left and I can’t get at the menus or drag it back. This happens whether I launch from the XDG menu or from a terminal (mintty or xterm does not matter). Inkscape window moves itself to off the top-left when opeining a file via Inkscape dialog… So I open Inkscape in Cygwin (current Cygwin, current Cygwin Inkscape packge, circa March 2018) and it’s fine, but then I open a file and it relocates the window off the top left of the screen.

Inkscape window view