Re: Why does octave keep opening in the terminal?

[Marco Atzeri]

Am 04.03.2020 um 14:07 schrieb Petr Mikulik:
> > If you run 'octave --help', you'll see that the '--gui' option is used
> > to start the graphical interface.
> >
> > Refer to the release notes for version 4.4 and you'll see that this
> > change was announced:
>
> Prior to 4.4, there were two executables, "octave" (GUI) and "octave-cli"
> (CLI).
>
> After 4.4, there are two executables, "octave" (CLI) and "octave-cli" (CLI).
> I wonder why there is no "octave-gui" executable or why linking "octave" to
> "octave-gui" does not start GUI (instead of writing much longer "octave
> --gui" unless you have an alias).
>
> What is the advatange of "octave-cli" if it starts in CLI as "octave" does?
>
> ---
> Petr Mikulik

it is lighter, at least on my build:

$ octave-cli --quiet
octave:2>  available_graphics_toolkits ()
ans =
{
  [1,1] = fltk
  [1,2] = gnuplot
}

$ octave --quiet
octave:1>  available_graphics_toolkits ()
ans =
{
  [1,1] = fltk
  [1,2] = gnuplot
  [1,3] = qt
}