Re: always start without gui

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 19:37:08 -0400, Peter P. wrote:
> Please excuse me if this has being asked already, I didn't find an
> answer in the standard docs so far.
> How can I disable the gui permanently, for example via my ~/.octaverc
> file? I know there is a command line option --no-gui, but I would like
> to avoid having to use another bash alias for that, and think it should
> be possible to specify in a user's config file.

I think a shell alias is the best solution for now. The only thing the
Octave program does before starting the GUI are check if you have a
graphical display and check for a few select command-line arguments,
such as --silent and --no-gui.

Your choices are either

  alias octave="octave --no-gui"
  alias octave=octave-cli

or you could train yourself to run octave-cli instead of octave.

-- 
mike