Ken, The octave folks are aware of this issue: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50025 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50025>
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 > On Oct 27, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Ken Cunningham > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > Port notes indicate it has something to do with fltk. I tried building octave > against fltk-devel but that made no difference. > > 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
