Re: Calling octave-gui bahavior

[John W. Eaton]

On 12/14/2013 06:30 AM, José Luis García Pallero wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I've compiled the 3.8.0 rc and all works very well. When I open a
> console and type octave-gui, the GUI is launched and I can work.

You are not supposed to do that.  You should run "octave --force-gui" 
because then Octave will give up the controlling terminal and then 
launch the octave-gui binary.  That's needed for "less" to work properly 
as the pager.

I'm beginning to think we should somehow eliminate or hide the 
octave-gui binary because people seem to be confused about its purpose 
and it seems we are going to see this confusion quite often.

> But
> I've noted that working on KDE (I don't know the behavior using Gnome
> and others) if I try to execute octave-gui from the application
> launcher, it can not be executed. I don't know also if this is a
> problem of KDE or is octave related. Has anyone tried to put
> octave-gui in the application launcher?

I believe I have done this with Gnome and it works properly from a 
desktop launcher there.

From a desktop launcher it is OK to execute octave-gui directly IF you 
do NOT select the "run in terminal" mode because that mode of starting a 
program already sets it up without a controlling terminal.

jwe