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Anders
Asked: 2015-05-02 03:31:07 +0800 CST

How to force Octave to launch in GUI mode from the dock?

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I wonder how to execute "octave --force-gui" (3.8.1) in Ubuntu (14.04) from the graphical interface without having to go through the terminal?

(The default icon in the dock bar executes "octave" which is okay but because there is nowadays a nice GUI I want to work in it..!)

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  1. Best Answer

    Ok, I found out how to modify the dock. A similar question was asked here:

    How do I change the launcher commands?

    The answer is to modify the properties using the 'alacarte' menu editor. Find the GNU Octave entry in this editor and change the command to '/usr/bin/octave --force-gui' in the properties window. Thereafter tick off the box which asks the program to be run in the terminal. Voila!

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  2. I launched octave using "/usr/bin/octave --force-gui". This started the gui and dropped an icon on the dock for the gui. I right clicked this new icon and locked it to the dock. Then unlocked the defult Octave icon.

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