No problem here on ubuntu16.04/gnome "flashback", with self-compiled Pd. Do you still have the problem if you compile and install Pd by yourself?

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2018-04-16 14:42 GMT+02:00 Peter P. peterparker@fastmail.com:

Has anyone else got the same problem? I am reluctant to go back to apt/Debian's pd 0.47.1-3.

Thanks! P

• Peter P. peterparker@fastmail.com [2018-04-06 11:36]:

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Hi list,

with the latest Debian testing versions (0.48.1) the font for the console menus comes up with 24pt size, although the font dialog indicates 12pt. Upon clicking 12pt once more the font changes to 12pt.

My .pdsettings file holds -font-size 12

but the described behavior exists also when starting Pd with the -noprefs flag.

Starting Pd with -verbose -d 3 gives a hint about the used font {DejaVu Sans Mono} bold

Explicitely starting pd -font-weight normal -font-size 12 -font-face "DejaVu Sans Mono" does not help either.

Is this problem known?

Thank you for packaging and maintaining Pd for Debian! Peter

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On 2018-04-17 12:24, Peter P. wrote:

• Peter P. peterparker@fastmail.com [2018-04-16 14:42]:

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Has anyone else got the same problem? I am reluctant to go back to apt/Debian's pd 0.47.1-3.

Actually, if I install via

sudo aptitude install puredata=0.47.1-3

$ pd -version still gives me Pd-0.48.1 ("") compiled for Debian (0.48.1-4) on 2018/03/04 at 19:05:23 UTC

weird...

the problem is, that "puredata" is only a meta-package that depends on puredata-core, puredata-gui and more. downgrading the meta-package might not downgrade puredata-gui and puredata-core (the latter being the one that prints the version number, the former being the one that would have the problems with the font).

fgamsdr IOhannes

On 2018-04-17 16:43, Peter P. wrote:

• IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at [2018-04-17 13:00]:

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On 2018-04-17 12:24, Peter P. wrote:

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• Peter P. peterparker@fastmail.com [2018-04-16 14:42]:

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Has anyone else got the same problem? I am reluctant to go back to apt/Debian's pd 0.47.1-3.

Actually, if I install via

sudo aptitude install puredata=0.47.1-3

$ pd -version still gives me Pd-0.48.1 ("") compiled for Debian (0.48.1-4) on 2018/03/04 at 19:05:23 UTC

weird...

the problem is, that "puredata" is only a meta-package that depends on puredata-core, puredata-gui and more. downgrading the meta-package might not downgrade puredata-gui and puredata-core (the latter being the one that prints the version number, the former being the one that would have the problems with the font).

Thanks, I was suspecting this. Out of interest, is it normal that the meta package does not downgrade the depending packages?

i would say so, yes. after all, downgrading packages is not really supported. (the usual impliciation being, that configuration files will only be converted into one direction.)

since i'm pretty convinced that your problem is not about the actual Pd-version, i'm going to spend approximately zero time to support downgrading if i'm not forced by some policy to do so).

so rather than spending much time with downgrading the package, i would do other tests, like creating a new user and see whether the problem persists in the pristine account.

(you also might want to consider adding the additional information requested in your sf ticket.)

gfasmdr IOhannes