I'm trying to run the gui but it never gets beyond the opening "Welcome to Octave" window - clicking "finish" just creates a new instance of the window. I traced it to resource-manager.cc:113 where Qdir.mkpath() is supposed to create ~/.config/octave/qt-settings
but it seems it does not get called after the Qdir constructor; I don't have qt libs with debug symbols but it still should have showed up stepping with gdb - any clues?
The gui works ok if I manually create ~/.config/octave/qt-settings