Comment 4 for bug 281554

Confirmed at OpenSuse 11.2 x64 bits
Inkscape 0.47 r22583 Compiled from sources.

Window Manager: fluxbox 1.0

In Fluxbox environments there is not a direct work around for this issue., and neither direct resize window option, and no dock mode for preferences dialog even when the option Window->Dialog Behavior was set to "Dockeable" (Sorry don't know how is writted the option on english) By default it looks like this:

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/4227/preferencessmall.png

With the help of su-v [at irc.freenode.net #inkscape] we just could get a workaround for Fluxbox environment to get the preferences dialog dock:

1) backup ~/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml
2) edit ~/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml like this:
             at the <group id="dialogs"> section scroll down until find the <group id="preferences" section
3) set the <group id="preferences" section
         <group
                 id="preferences"
                 state="0"
                 panel_size="1"
                 panel_ratio="100"
                 panel_mode="1"
                 panel_wrap="1"
                 page="37"
                 x="669"
                 y="219"
                w="345"
                h="170" />
4) the [state="0"] opt do the trick to dock the preferences dialog into inkscape right bar, and there it can be resized to looks like this:

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/6488/preferencesdocked.png

Every time inkscape is opened, the docked preferences dialog have to be resized, but at least there is an option to do it.

cya,

xpeed.
xpeed [at] root.net.co