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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Ken,
> 
>  The octave folks are aware of this issue: 
> 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
> 

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