Indeed "gemdefaultwindow.pd" is not packaged with Gem 0.94(_pre1> instead there is "gemdefaultwindow-glx.pd"[2], but Pd/Gem still seems to search for it. Any ideas why?
it is packaged fine, but not as a file but as a symlink that is created at installation time, or whenver the admin chooses to enable a different default window using the "update-alternatives" mechanism.
I see, that makes sense. Thank you for explaining.
Indeed after I made the symlink, Gem (0.94) mostly works. Alas, now I'm getting errors again when I try to load videos with [pix_movie]… I did make the effort to try and convert all necessary plugin and library packages from Debian with the help of debtap, but evidently I have made a mistake somewhere.
I am giving up on this for now. I'm developing for Raspberry Pi at the moment, so having Gem also on the Laptop would merely be a convenience for me. Given how involved that turned out to be, I better focus my energy elsewhere.
As a tip for anyone else running into this: There are Arch binary packages for Purr Data (continuation of pd-l2ork with javascript GUI, as I understand it) available in this repo:
https://bitbucket.org/l2orkaur/l2orkaur.bitbucket.org
Gem is included (0.93 again, though) and video playback works. The repo is not mine and I don't know the maintainer, so please judge for yourself if you want to trust these binaries or not.
do not fuddle wit 0.93.3; even less so with binaries from this release! (seriously)
Okay, stopping now.
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