On 1 Dec 2007, at 10:11 PM, Peter Plessas wrote:

i thought that the -noprefs flag also disables loading of the .pdrc
file on linux, but it does not. Is this intentional on 0.40-2?

Since the preference dialogues were added they have always been
treated as quite separate from the older .pdrc system - IMHO this
split remains useful as it is possible to either ignore the older
system (just delete any .pdrc files) or use it instead (delete the
settings files instead) or use both in parallel to help manage your
settings in different ways for different circumstances (eg using
the .pdrc to set up machine specific things like which soundcard to
use while selecting libraries and startup patches with the
preferences). The newer preference system is getting some very useful
features - especially the embedded option! - and when the dialogue
box eventually gets more than 10 slots I will use the .pdrc system
less often.

simon