OCtave Not On GUI Menu and Does Not Run in GUI

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Hi,

I installed from YAST - Octave, but there are no GUI icons in the menus - so can someone assist on how to place an icon within the GUI menu system ?. Thanks.

Also, Octave does not start any GUI windows - it did before when i had Opensuse 13.1, now on OpenSuse 13.2 - no GUI windows appearing, but i can see the program running as a process in a terminal window.

Any ideas ?.

Thanks and regards,

Shadders.

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shadders,

There is a gui for octave available. It is noted as experimental. It is available as a separate package from octave and is obtained from the 13.2/science repository. It is named octave-gui

It gets installed into the /usr/lib… directory. Most likely should be in the /usr/bin… directory with the other executable guis and more easily found by environment. Rather than move octave-gui around to make it more easy to run as a user, I created a launcher using alacarte menu editor.

I use mate desktop and octave-gui is in both mate menu and gnome menu under programming.

I am using the launcher command of:

“gnome-terminal -x /usr/lib/octave/3.8.2/exec/i586-suse-linux-gnu/octave-gui”

With limited testing I believe the gui is functional when accessed in the above manner.

Hope this helps,
Tom Kosvic

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Hi Tom,

Thanks - yes - i can see the /usr/bin entries - and can run Octave from the terminal window - but i am sure that Opensuse 13.1 it was working with the GUI automatically.

I am using KDE - so not sure about the mate desktop aspect.

If i check YAST - there is an Octave-gui package installed - so not sure why it is not being run.

I do not have the sub directory as you have indicated.

I have searched Ocatve.org for a bug report - but there is none listed for opensuse.

As such - no gui listed in /usr/bin for octave.

Any ideas - how Octave gui would run for a KDE installation ?.

Thanks and regards,

Shadders.

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Hi,

Just reinstalled - still the same issue, only the cli is run.

Any ideas on who to contact for this ? as it seems to be a bug ?

Regards,

Shadders.

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On 2015-04-26 20:56, shadders wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just reinstalled - still the same issue, only the cli is run.

The gui for 3.11 is installed in
/usr/lib64/octave/3.8.2/exec/x86_64-suse-linux-gnu

There is no desktop file, so you don’t get a menu entry for it.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))

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Hi Carlos,

Thank you very much - i ran the program and now have the GUI open and running - functioning too.

How would i then add a GUI icon to the desktop and menu system ?.

In general - how would this be done for any program ?

Is there an online resource explaining this ?

Thanks and regards,

Shadders.

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On 2015-04-27 18:36, shadders wrote:
> How would i then add a GUI icon to the desktop and menu system ?.

I have done this, but I don’t remember offhand. Typically I don’t bother
to do it.

The menus are created automatically, by reading files with the .desktop
extension that packagers include in the rpms. For instance, krusader has
“/usr/share/applications/kde4/krusader.desktop”:


cer@minas-tirith:~> cat /usr/share/applications/kde4/krusader.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
X-SuSE-translate=true
Name=Krusader
Exec=krusader -caption "%c" %i
Icon=krusader_user
Terminal=false
Type=Application
X-DocPath=krusader/index.html
Categories=FileManager;Utility;Qt;KDE;
Comment=Twin-Panel File Manager
GenericName=File Manager

cer@minas-tirith:~>

I think that you would have to create your file under
/usr/local/share/applications

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))

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I expect you are using version 3.8 of Octave. This version has experimental GUI, not very stable. You can use “octave --force-gui” command, see “2.1.1 Command Line Options” from manual. Octave 4.0 has stable GUI with .desktop file.

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Hi Carlos, Dmitry,

Thanks for the response.

Regards,

Shadders.