using octave with gui but without crashing?

[Ken Cunningham]

thanks --- there's a patch in that ticket that reportedly works to fix this. I'll try it out while I check out Jupyter notebooks...

K

> On Oct 27, 2017, at 8:20 AM, Marius Schamschula <lists at schamschula.com> wrote:
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> Ken,
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>  The octave folks are aware of this issue: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50025
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> I’ve used octave for over 20 years, so I’m used to the CLI.
> 
> However, when I discovered Jupyter notebooks, and found out there is an octave kernel, I’ve switched to using this as my octave GUI. Bonus: I get the same interface to iPython.
> 
> Here the current problem is installing the octave kernel (some files need to be manually installed in ~/Library): a recent upgrade moved this install procedure to the metakernel code, and this in turn fails. There have been a couple of metakernel updates in the last few days, and I haven’t checked if the problem has been resolved, as this needs to be done only once per machine and user.
> 
> Marius
> --
> Marius Schamschula
> 
> 
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>> On Oct 27, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Octave with GUI locks up on quitting. Has done for a long time, I believe. Pretty sure it’s an upstream bug that everyone seems to live with.
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>> Port notes indicate it has something to do with fltk. I tried building octave against fltk-devel but that made no difference.
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>> I see you can build octave without fltk . That sounds tempting, if it works to fix the crashes. 
>> 
>> It takes many hours to build Octave.
>> 
>> Has anyone already figured out the current optimal situation for using octave?
>> 
>> K
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