Re: always start without gui

[Peter P.]

* Mike Miller <address@hidden> [2015-08-01 14:07]:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 19:37:08 -0400, Peter P. wrote:
> > Please excuse me if this has being asked already, I didn't find an
> > answer in the standard docs so far.
> > How can I disable the gui permanently, for example via my ~/.octaverc
> > file? I know there is a command line option --no-gui, but I would like
> > to avoid having to use another bash alias for that, and think it should
> > be possible to specify in a user's config file.
> 
> I think a shell alias is the best solution for now. The only thing the
> Octave program does before starting the GUI are check if you have a
> graphical display and check for a few select command-line arguments,
> such as --silent and --no-gui.
> 
> Your choices are either
> 
>   alias octave="octave --no-gui"
>   alias octave=octave-cli
> 
> or you could train yourself to run octave-cli instead of octave.

Thank you as well Mike! I went for 
alias octave="octave --no-hui -q"

Have a great week!
P