Here's a weird annoyance. All text is too big (or, conversely, all boxes are too small - messages, objects, everything). The text spills out over the right edge. The longer the text inside, the more it spills out. I feel like there's maybe some magic Tk options hidden somewhere to fix this ... ?

thanks,

--ben

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/pd.png

which version of pd? and where did you get it from?

using pd-0.41.4 (vanilla) from the pure:dyne respositories on Debian Lenny I have no problem like that.

I'm using pd 0.40.3-extended for Ubuntu Hardy, from puredata.info.

Interesting, with each problem I have, the universe seems to be pointing me towards using vanilla and building individual libs as needed ...

Here is some info on the font problem.

http://puredata.info/docs/faq/on-gnu-linux-the-fonts-are-strange-and-or-too-big-or-small

Yeah, I tried that, but it didn't seem to make any difference. Then I went ahead and compiled my own pd from the latest source (0.42-4), and everything looks fine and somehow crisper and more responsive, too took less than 10 minutes to do. nice.

now to go and compile GEM and see if that solves my other difficulties.

btw, I saw some warnings that using Tcl 8.5 was less stable than 8.4, is that still true?

thanks,

--ben

Don't know . I generally use PD on windows. Just pasting from the FAQ because you hadn't mentioned trying that.