The saving and quitting issues could be caused by your window manager. I get this same issue when I accidentally hit ctrl-r instead of ctrl-4/5, it tries to raise the pd window but does not quite succeed leaving confusion between pd's core and the Tk gui as to what actually has focus. Clicking on the pd window gets things back to working properly. From what I remember and could tell, it is only an issue in non-compliant WMs (so not a pd bug), with tiling WMs being the worst offenders.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM Jim Ruxton <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am using Pd 0.56.0 (Linux/amd64 - single precision) version of Pure Data on > Ubuntu 24.04 and having a strange issue I'm having trouble tracking down. > Wondering if anyone has come across this issue and found a solution. I have a > patch that I am working on and after working on it for a while I can no > longer save it . If I open that patch, make a quick change and save it, that > works fine. After editing it for a while doing simple things like adding > comments I can go to the file menu and save it, though it appears to work it > doesn't actually save the file. The way I know it hasn't saved the file is if > I then go to close the file , the prompt comes up asking if I want to save > the file even though I just did save it. Also at that point I can't quit the > program. It again asks if I want to save the program and I say yes but it > doesn't quit. I then quit it in the console with cntrl c. And when reopening > see that it hasn't saved my changes. The patch is working fine before and > after I try to save and close it. Except there is a strange anomaly which is > that I am playing short audio wav files using Else player and each time it > goes to play the file there is a message in the console saying it can't find > the file. Even though it plays the file it says it can't find. I don't have > other instances of PD open or other panels that would prevent me from closing > PD. It is a very strange issue I've never seen but it's driving me a bit > bonkers as it appears pretty random when it decides it can no longer be > saved. Any thoughts on what could be causing this strangeness? > --- > [email protected] - the Pure Data mailinglist > https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/RXVNJHBM2OV36WMQKS4QGXE4KHM2BRTD/ > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.iem.at/ --- [email protected] - the Pure Data mailinglist https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/EC7XHVLSFQUGEAVK4OR4WB72RA7JMT2B/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.iem.at/
