• IOhannes m zmölnig zmoelnig@iem.at [2017-11-11 00:10]:

On 11/10/2017 01:46 PM, Peter P. wrote:

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Hi list,

For many years I started pd on Linux from the console with its default audio settings from my then .pdrc defaulting to alsa with a simple pd

When I needed pd to use jack I would start pd -jack

Nowadays it seems that pd stores whatever audio API I am currently using whenever I change any aspect of its settings, eg. changing search paths.

This can lead to pd telling me that jack is not running. I have to check every time I modify any pd setting which audio API gets stored to .pdsettings and if that is my prefered default (alsa). Is there anything I can do to have a fixed default API regardless of other settings (a bash alias is not an option)?

i was going to suggest an alias, but alas.

how about a wrapper script?

$ cat /usr/local/bin/pd
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/pd -alsa "$@"
$

Thank you! This works indeed as pd is able to handle pd -alsa -jack and jack is given preference without an error message while pd -jack -alsa does indeed select alsa.

Another nasty temporary workaround is to remove write permissions on .pdsettings.

there's a related PR on github (it doesn't solve your problem, but also tries to avoid spilling some cmdline options into the Pd-settings) https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/153

Good to know! Perhaps the same should be done for the audio API settings? Dan?

best, Peter