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 >
