: How do I make Inkscape's selection tool (F1) more precise? When I click on something, it selects, I believe, the largest object in a given radius from the click offset, not the path I've actually

@Candy945

From Dmitry Kirsanov's book:


Also, you will notice that every clickable object has an invisible
margin, several pixels wide, on all sides. A click in that margin will
still select that object. [...] On the downside, this also explains
why it's sometimes so difficult to select the bottom object in a stack
even if that bottom object protrudes a little from under the top one.

If you don't like the size of this clickable margin, you can change it
on the Mouse tab of the Inkscape Preferences dialog: Adjust the Grab
sensitivity value, the default being 8 screen pixels.


For some reason, I had to restart Inkscape for this to take effect.

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@Cugini998

you can select above element and press '3' to zoom.
I think is better than zooming in and out.

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@Michele215

Normally Inkscape selects the topmost that occupies the exact position where you click.

There are many ways of selecting objects with the mouse. You may be interested in /select under/ for selecting objects not at the top.

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