[PD] plugin.tcl not changing anything, linux

[James Correa]

If you want  color themes in Pd you can use PdNext from Seb:
https://github.com/sebshader/pdnext/releases/tag/0.52-1
I am on linux too, manjaro and works quite well!!
He now has a theme-picker plugin, it is quite useful too:
https://github.com/sebshader/color-themes-plugin

James

On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 15:59, Samuel Burt <composer.samuel.burt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, IOhannes, for the link. It's easy to get lost in old documentation.
>
> Does anyone know if any of the instructions on
> http://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins are applicable to Pd 0.5+ anymore or
> should we update the page to show which versions of Pd are capable of using
> these tcl plugins?
>
> Sam
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>> On 3/3/22 15:59, Samuel Burt wrote:
>> > Hi, list.
>> >
>> > In Pop_OS (Debian derivative), I created a file called
>> > *canvasgrey-plugin.tcl* and populated it with:
>> >
>> > set ::canvas_fill "gray75"
>> > set ::text_color "#222"
>> >
>> > I've openned Pd, created new windows, saved the preferences, but seen no
>> > change in the canvas or text color. Any suggestions?
>> >
>> > This page <http://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins/GuiPluginsAPI> seems
>> recent
>
>
> this page refers to pd-extended (long dead), and doesn't apply to pd
>> (vanilla).
>
> theres currently no way to set the colors in Pd, but there's a [196]
>> that tries to add this possibility.
>
> gasmr
>> IOhannes
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> [196] https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/196
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