Re: Trying to compile Octave on RHEL 7.3

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 13:16:54 -0800, Michael Metts wrote:
> hey Mike.  if i SU to root and run ./run-octave it seems to work just
> fine - i.e. command window is NOT blank with black dots.  i’m still
> trying to figure out what the difference is.  where does Octave hide
> user settings?  for instance, when i ran it as root it gave me the
> intro screens.  when run it as myself it doesn’t not.  i’m wondering
> if there’s some old file that i should erase.  all i found in ~/ was
> .octave_hist … 
> 
> i’m happy to open a bug report too.  i tried comparing the results of
> env > myenv side by side to see if there’s something funny about root
> vs. me … nothing i didn’t already know about or expect.  i’ll keep
> digging.  

Try deleting the ~/.config/octave directory. This is where various GUI
preferences are stored. It's possible an old settings file is giving the
latest version problems.

-- 
mike