Hey guys,

made a reinstall of my linux system and switched from xubuntu to lubuntu.
When i reinstalled pd via apt-get i realized that a lot of patchcords where missing in my patches. Actually there are just not visible. Also there is a strange autopatch function that connects object when i drag them closer together automatically.
So i thought it maybe the version so i compiled pd 0.46.7 on my machine but nothing changed the patch cords were still missing. So i have the assumption it is realted some how to tk/tcl and other gui stuff. Any suggestion how to fix this?

PS: I realized also some other stuff. For example there is no bangs only toggle gui objects but the toggles don't show their current state.

Thank you

Okay i realized how to turn off auto-patch and the main problem is that patch cords are only visible when they are straight

Are you sure you're using vanilla? Enabling/disabling the auto-patch feature doesn't sound very vanilla to me.

@alexandros it's in s_main_c as a startup flag in windows vanilla 0.47.1.........

"-autopatch       -- enable auto-connecting new from selected objects (true by default)\n",
"-noautopatch     -- defeat auto-patching new from selected objects\n",

and set "on by default". It drove me nuts until I found the switch.

@morast Have you tried updating the wish app...... latest vanilla requires tcl/tk 8.5 and maybe it is not included in the Pd Linux distribution.
http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/install.html......... and scroll down.

David.

@whale-av Hmmm my system says i have tcl/tk8.6 installed. I removed it then installed 8.5. While removing tcl/tk8.6 it also removed the puredata-gui so in need to install it again but while installing it also installed tcl/tk8.6 again. Now i have both version but i think pd is using 8.6 because i see no diffrence the problem is still there. Can i tell pd somehow to use another version?

@morast Sorry, I don't know. There is a suggestion here.. http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/8505/tcl-tk-version-conflict/12 ... that tcl/tk is buggy on a mac (and so maybe also in Linux) and that Active Tcl/Tk is better. There might well be other useful info in that thread.
But maybe tcl is a red herring. Maybe an X window library problem, of missing fonts?
Does the Pure Data installation contain Tcl/Tk? On a mac it is already included in the OS distribution.
Maybe it is compiled against the wrong version?
David.

I can say that I have had some very similar graphical problems when compiling on a Debian Sid install that was also missing fonts and possibly other components as well. No such problems with the same packages on older platforms such as Ubuntu 14 or Debian Squeeze.

Okay after a lot of trying a lot of distros. I ended up installing xubuntu 17.04 and the gui seems to work porperly again. Strange thing is that i tried it with other distros(ubuntu 16.04, lubuntu 16.04) inside virtual box and everything seemed to work but when i would install system on my harddisk i would have the troubles i described in my first post. Should i post this bug?