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20 Aug, 2008

Creating an oval vignette in Inkscape 0.46

Posted by: admin In: graphics| software

This is in response to a question about Inkscape on launchpad.
All details are in the attached SVG file which should also be available from the Open Clip Art Library.
Link Summaryoval vignette inkscapepbhj at open clipart library

Record your desktop
[I've written elsewhere about video screen capture (a.k.a. screencast) applications. This is KDE4 specific.]
If you’re using KDE4 and have found the screencast feature ( System Settings > Desktop > [All Effects] : Video Record) you’re probably wondering how to play the files it produces. By default (during your KDE4 session) when you toggle [...]

Mouse spins player instead of normal movement
When I started Enemy Territory: Return to Castle Wolfenstein (ET:RTCW) everything came up fine but as soon as I entered a server to play an online game then the mouse would mess up. Basically any movement would cause the character on screen to spin / rotate / turn around [...]

Short version: Alt-F3, M, then use cursor keys.
Alt-F3 enters the “window menu” or “window configuration menu” for the currently focussed application / program.
M is the underlined letter in Move, this will then bring up the “compass” cursor over the window to be moved.
Cursor keys - up, down, left, right - then move the window around.



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