Hi guys!

I'm running Pd-extended 0.40.3 on an Intel Mac with Tiger and since a couple of days, whenever I start Pd, a second app icon called simply "pd" keeps popping up on my dock and stays there until I quit Pd. It's not a major problem in any way but it's still irritating. Any ideas/solutions on how to get rid of it?

what's the original app running called? is it 'wish'? if so, wish is a tcl/tk interpreter that interprets pd. So it runs so that pd may run.

or do you get 2 instances of pd? That's weird to me too.

No. One is called "Pd-extended" and has the Pd "logo" as its icon (this is also what I use to start Pd in the first place), the other is called simply "pd" and has the default OS X icon for apps. So it's a different thing. Also, it doesn't have the little black arrow beneath it in the dock to indicate it's running, but it is. Also, I can't quit it regularly, and when I force-quit it, Pd crashes.

I got the same thing with Pd-extended 0.39. I was running it for about four or five months when this little extra icon started popping up in the dock. And it's still there now that I've upgraded to 0.40. I have no idea what it is, but it doesn't seem to be causing any problems. Like you said, it's just kind of annoying.

Hmm... no solutions on this, it seems. Maybe a complete reinstall (deleting old prefs and everything) would fix it but I'm not up for that since it's so customised I don't want to go through the trouble of doing it all over again.

AFAIK, that's just the way it is on a mac. Perhaps it has something to do with the client-server nature of Pd?

Nah, it's not, because it only a started doing that a while ago. Before it was normal, like any other app.