pd-gui(1)

💖 pd-gui — the User Interface for Pure Data 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for pd-gui (that's a General Commands Manual situation, in case you were wondering) and it's literally the face of Pure Data. let's get into it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pd-gui

pd-gui server:port

like, that's it. that's the whole vibe. two ways in 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so Pure Data (aka Pd, iykyk) is a graphical programming environment for real-time audio synthesis and related applications. very main character of it.

and this little icon, pd-gui, is the graphical user interface for Pd. it talks to Pd over a network socket — yes, they're long-distance besties, communicating through a socket, we love that for them.

now here's the thing:

• Normally, Pd will automatically start this user interface for you. it just does it. no notes. ✨
• However, if you want to run Pd and pd-gui on different machines, you will have to launch the GUI manually. it's giving long-distance relationship, but make it Unix. 😭

and if you're doing the whole two-machines thing, here's how it goes:

• If you specify server:port, pd-gui will try to connect to Pd running on the remote server and listening on port. 👑
• If you do not specify anything, pd-gui will simply launch Pd for you. easy. iconic. periodt. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• pd(1) — go read that one too, bestie, it's the whole main thing 🌈

and a cute lil sign-off for you: this manpage was written by IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others — generous king behavior fr fr 🫶).

it's a GNU situation, dated 2010 Mar 24, and honestly? still serving. 🎀💜