Johnathan WIlkins wrote:
I'd be curious to know what window manager you are using.
Try going into pd-gui.tcl and find the line: # tk scaling 1
Remove the "#", save the file, and then restart Pd. See if that solves the problem.
(Depending on how you are running Pd, you may need to have privileges to edit that file)
-Jonathan
I am using fluxbox.
Indeed, editing /usr/local/lib/pd/tcl/pd-gui.tcl to yield tk scaling 1 solved the problem for me.
Interestingly there is a file /usr/local/bin/pd-gui.tcl present as well, whose changes do not have an effet. This Pd is installed using "make install" from within Miller's git sources. I wonder why pd-gui.tcl is installed twice on my system, the latter one also being in my $PATH.
Thank you again for this quick one Jonathan.
There is a comment related to tk scaling in this very file just above the scaling option: # we are not using Tk scaling, so fix it to 1 on all platforms. This # guarantees that patches will be pixel-exact on every platform # 2013.07.19 msp - trying without this to see what breaks - it's # having # deleterious effects on dialog window font sizes.
Would be interesting to know wonder what the deletrious effects were. But, hey- problem solved for me.
thanks cheers P