Re: octave --force-gui no longer forces the GUI

[Rik]

On 11/25/2013 08:57 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> Rik,
>
> Something in the logic switch in changeset 25b6fbe82827 has made the
> --force-gui option not work anymore if stdin is not a terminal. So for
> example
>
>   $ octave --force-gui
>
> works, but
>
>   $ octave --force-gui < /dev/null
>
> does not, it just returns to the shell. This breaks running the GUI
> from a launcher or from the desktop environment shell (e.g. Alt-F2 in
> gnome).
>
> It's not obvious to me what's wrong in the diff, but it works
> correctly on the previous revision.
>
11/25/13

Mike,

I was in the middle of changes when I got your message.  It should be
working now.

--Rik