... so that I can rotate it?


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Hold alt and left-click twice on it (first click will select the top rectange, second the middle one, and a third click will select the bottom one).

LiquidAsh wrote:

Spinningforthecause wrote:How to select an object between the two?
... so that I can rotate it?

Hold alt and left-click twice on it (first click will select the top rectange, second the middle one, and a third click will select the bottom one).

… and - once you have selected the object in-between - use the keyboard shortcut 'Shift+S' to toggle between scale and rotation arrows.

Ok, shift+s allows the rotation. Thanks.

By they way alt + left mouse click is not universal shortcut, for Linux you need to also press windows key which is sometimes called "super" key.

You could also switch to outline view and select it directly. Once it's selected and you've clicked a second time to switch to rotation mode (or used shift-s) you can change back to normal view if you want, and still be able to rotate it.

Even cooler than that is Alt-scrollwheel to cycle select all items under the pointer (it even reduced the opacity of all the non-selected ones while cycling)

-Rob A>

alt+mousewheel up scrolls the page up, down scrolls down. Same with super+alt+wheel

RobA wrote:Even cooler than that is Alt-scrollwheel to cycle select all items under the pointer (it even reduced the opacity of all the non-selected ones while cycling)

Note: This feature is only available in development snapshot builds of the next major release (Inkscape 0.49)!

~suv wrote:

RobA wrote:Even cooler than that is Alt-scrollwheel to cycle select all items under the pointer (it even reduced the opacity of all the non-selected ones while cycling)

Note: This feature is only available in development snapshot builds of the next major release (Inkscape 0.49)!

Sorry - forget which version I have at any time ...

-Rob A>