: Shapes not showing in Inkscape I try to draw a square or circle and it just doesn't work. I know it should have a fill and stroke, and even when I select colors, it's not showing. All I

@Reiling762

If you don’t want to go through a ton of Inkscape settings that you might have accidentally set to some weird value, a shortcut would be to delete preferences.xml in Inkscape’s settings folder (which is located at ~/.config/inkscape for me). Obviously this way you will lose all other settings you may have made.

You can also override most, if not all, styles for an object by pasting the style of another object. So if you have visible objects and newly drawn objects are invisible, do the following:


Select a visible object.
Copy (Ctrl + C).
Draw a new object.
Paste Style (Ctrl + Shift + V).

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@Pierce403

I had a similiar problem. For me the answer was to in the fill section increase the opacity to 100% that seemed to give the box all its characteristics and not keep disappearing.

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@Miguel516

In inkscape i had the same problem. If i drew a circle or a square, only the stroke would show up. It used to work properly before then i dont know i must have accidentally changed the setting.Even if i selected colors for the fill it still wouldnt show up. My problem was only with the fill and in particular the "Flat Fill" option for fill. All the other options for Fill still worked fine.

To repair this issue for me now the following method works. Press Shift+Ctrl+P. Then maximise or expand the option. Under shapes. Choose Rectangle Then in the options on the right side change from "last used style" to "this tools own style". This seems to have fixed the problem for me. However i had to repeat the same thing for Ellipses if i want the circle to act normal again.

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@Ravi4787994

Make sure there is not simply another object in front of your shape. Raise to top to see if that's the case


Make sure it actually has a fill and/or stroke


Make sure the opacity of fill and stroke is not 0


If the stroke/fill color is a gradient, make sure that it does not end outside of the shape


Make sure the layer is visible


Make sure the layer opacity is not 0


Set Display Mode to Normal


Unset the Hide checkmark in object properties


Release the mask to see if the object was masked with a disjunct shape


Remove Opacity or Channel transparency or similar filters via the filter editor

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@Sue6373160

When things aren't show up (like shapes) there are a few things that can be causing that apart from colors and stroke.

Go to Objects - >Fill & Stroke - > Fill tab and check to see if the fill is at 100%.

Also go to Layers and check if layer opacity is at 100%

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