@smilinggoat said:

...Although I no longer have a need to run it GUI-less, it would be handy a handy option to have all the same.

I think I may have found out how to do it. I'll leave it to some of the other veteran Pd users here to see if the other flags will work. I posted my findings in another thread linked below.

http://puredata.hurleur.com/viewtopic.php?pid=19168#p19168

I'm having the same problem on OSX 10.5.8. Using "Open" does not allow arguments and just doing "/Path/to/.app/Contents/MacOS/Pd-extended -nogui" still fires up the GUI.

*******::UPDATE::********

Ok, I seemed to have figured out how to do it. You don't open the "Pd-extended.app/Contents/MacOS/Pd-extended" binary. Instead you have to reference "Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd" and then add your flags. So the command that worked for me was:

"/Applications/PureData/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd -nogui"

I hope that helps some of you out there. I know it had me scratching my head there for a while. I have only tested this with the -nogui flag and it seems to run as it should. I can't say anything about other flags. I guess time will tell.

Where would this be in the OSX version?