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bug #40685: octave fails with no DISPLAY, used to fall back to cli mode

Submitted by:  Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Submitted on:  Sat 23 Nov 2013 11:19:05 PM UTC  
 
Category: GUISeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Incorrect Result
Status: FixedAssigned to: None
Originator Name: Open/Closed: Closed
Release: devOperating System: GNU/Linux

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Sun 24 Nov 2013 04:46:22 PM UTC, comment #3:

Works for me, thanks.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Project Administrator
Sun 24 Nov 2013 07:59:17 AM UTC, comment #2:

I checked in the following changeset:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/a99b7d656a6c

It seems to fix the rpoblem for me. If it works for you, please close this report.

John W. Eaton <jwe>
Project Administrator
Sun 24 Nov 2013 12:34:15 AM UTC, comment #1:

I think it should warn that no graphical display appears to be available and then start in CLI mode. That's what I meant for it to do and I remember that it worked at some point. I'll try to see why it's no longer working.

John W. Eaton <jwe>
Project Administrator
Sat 23 Nov 2013 11:19:05 PM UTC, original submission:

Reporting on behalf of this thread:

http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Warning-lt-octave-gui-cannot-connect-to-X-server-td4659449.html

This did work not too long ago, if not running in X or unable to connect to X for whatever reason, the GUI was not run and the octave executable falls back to octave-cli.

Now that we are considering disabling the GUI unless explicitly enabled with --gui, this may become fixed as a side effect.

Should octave fall back to command-line even if --gui is requested if the GUI can't be started or should it error?

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Project Administrator

 

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