Re: 2 minutes delay time for the editor to become usable ...

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On 2/11/20 5:33 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Dear octave - team,
> I recently already came up with this question but did not get a real reply: 
> when I am trying to edit a file in octave (first time after start) it takes 
> approximately 2 minutes until the dialog is working. After that it keeps 
> working as long as octave is up and running (graphical interface). This holds 
> true for both octave 5.1.0 and 5.2.0 and is reproducible on two different 
> computers.
> Any idea how I could debug this? I am on openSUSE 42.3 (64 Bit).
> Thank you very much,
> best
> 
> Dieter Jurzitza
> 

Dear Dieter Jurzitza,

This problem seems related to bug #54607 [1].  As workaround, the Octave
GUI offers a setting

   Edit > Preferences > General (Tab) > "Use native file dialogs"

which should be DISABLED on your system.  With this setting disabled, a
non-native file dialog (looks slightly different from the standard one
used by KDE) should pop up within a second.

Personally, I use OpenSUSE 15.1 and face exactly the same problem.

Best regards,

Kai


[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54607