hi all !

just wondering: when i use "pd -rt" i have very stable audio-output, even at a cpu-load of 80% and more, i can do almost anything i want. since my patch is quite heavy and i want to run it without any bips and pops, i decided to separate the audio-engine and the GUI into 2 tasks communicating via netsend/netreceive (so they could be run on different computers if needed)

since i am now working on only one single pc, i normally start 2 pd's, one with audio enabled and the "-rt" flag, the other (the GUI) with audio disabled. i do not want to stiff it all together into one big audio-GUI patch for the reasons mentioned above (and because i used quite a lot sends and receives with the same name. i would have to rewrite the whole thing, to make it run again)

while developing i did not encounter any problems with this setting. unfortunately i NOW do not want the audio-engine be visible when the whole thing is started (my GUI is very beautiful...) therefore my clever self has remembered the "-nogui" flag, BUT: when started with "-nogui" (and with or without "-rt") i am not able to move my mouse without actually hearing it (nice, but i do not want this now). it seems like the -nogui flag removes the -rt things (though, the task is still running as suid)

any ideas ? what is this -nogui thing for, if everything behaves worse when using it ? shouldn't it gain performance ?

mfg.cdas.st IOhannes