6.1 The Selector: Moving
After selecting objects, transforming them is the second most important function of the Selector tool. And of all the kinds of transforming, moving is the easiest: Just grab an object (if it is not selected yet, clicking will select it; you just need to be in the object’s clickable area for this to work) and drag.
Such free dragging is easy and inspiring; you would normally use it at the early stages of your work where you need to move stuff around a lot to find the best overall composition. (Note that unlike many other vector editors, Inkscape moves the object itself in real time, not just its outline or frame.)
At later stages of your work, you will more often need constrained dragging. The most common constrained mode ...
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