P.S. I assume the reason for the line not being present is that it was not written to the file in an earlier version, and I have upgraded to a later version which only writes the line when re-creating the file from scratch.
On 21/09/17 18:04, Mike Miller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 17:58:04 +0100, D Haley wrote: >> Thanks for getting back so quickly. That command yields no output (no >> such line) - the file does however exist. >> >> $ grep allow_web_connection ~/.config/octave/qt-settings >> $ > > Ok. That indicates that the setting is not actually being saved. It's > possible that Octave is not able to save its settings at all. Can you > check the file permissions and ownership? If you delete the file or move > it out of the way does it work as expected? >