Dan Wilken said this at Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:21:36 -0800:

I've opened this file in Text Edit but it has enough ampersands and no "PD", so I'm reluctant to change it.

Which file is "this file"? I wasn't sure about your antecedent.

I substituted the PD.command file with an innocuous shell command, but without the terminal I'm not sure how to turn the execute permission on.

Did you perhaps change the terminal Window Settings at some point and click on "Use Settings as Default"? That may have made it the default.

What happened? I need my Terminal back.

This seems to be a heretofore undocumented FAQ. Here's the workaround to the public list, for future reference:

Here's the response I got back from the last person who asked (Alex Geddie):

• i did a little investigation in the

same file that damion mentioned - the com.apple.Terminal.plist file in Preferences. i opened it in BBEdit and changed this:

<key>ExecutionString</key> <string>/Applications/Pd.command; exit</string>

to this:

<key>ExecutionString</key> <string></string>

and everything is fine again...

That's probably the first place to look.

Ah yes,

I did this at the Artist Run Centre accidentally.

This happens if you save your terminal settings while PD is running!!! :(

Happens if you change the colours/transparency etc.. while you have pd in that terminal.

I did not find a fix.. burried config file somewhere.

On that note is there a utility for OSX that shows all the files opened by all the processes? (like snoopDOS from the amiga days)

B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Wilken" cubis@comcast.net To: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:21 PM Subject: [PD] PD Installation locked me out of Terminal OS X

Hello,

I recently installed Pd version 0.36-0 from a binary for OS X.

Since installing, I have not been able to run my Terminal without launching PD and Wish.

This is frustrating to say the very least. I've checked the preferences for Terminal and under:

When creating a new Terminal window:

I have selected "Execute the default login shell using /usr/bin/login

I've opened this file in Text Edit but it has enough ampersands and no "PD", so I'm reluctant to change it.

I substituted the PD.command file with an innocuous shell command, but without the terminal I'm not sure how to turn the execute permission on.

What happened? I need my Terminal back.

Thanks in advance,

Dan

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