After installing Octave from the appcenter I do not find any icon on the desktop and it does not start its GUI when I run it from the command line with
flatpak run org.octave.Octave
eos-diagnostic-230130_180912_UTC 0100.txt (1.4 MB)
Octave installed from Appcenter does not start its GUI nor does it have an Icon
I found some kind of a workaround by adding --force-gui
to the command line, i.e., by starting Octave with:
flatpak run org.octave.Octave --force-gui
it gives the following error mesages and starts the GUI
Gtk-Message: 18:22:33.874: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”
Gtk-Message: 18:22:33.876: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”
Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
I do:
Does the file /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.octave.Octave/current/active/export/share/applications/org.octave.Octave.desktop
exist on your computer?
It seems to be by design that running Octave doesn’t default to a GUI. The file I mentioned above uses the command:
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/octave --file-forwarding org.octave.Octave --gui @@ %f @@
which can be simplified to:
org.octave.Octave --gui
@wjt w thanks. I must have overlooked the icon. It is there and everything works fine. Sorry for the noise.
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