Re: Can't test GUI

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Jacob Dawid <address@hidden> wrote:
> Juan Pablo,
>
> check whether you are starting octave from the directory it is in. It
> usually looks for "../default-settings", so if the cwd is not right,
> it won't work as expected.
>
> Jacob
>
> 2012/7/10 Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>:
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Jacob Dawid <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Juan Pablo,
>>>
>>> when the startup assistant is in an endless loop, it means it can't
>>> find a configuration file. Can you manually copy the file
>>> default-settings to ~/.config/octave-gui/ renaming it to "settings"?
>>> Then rerun the GUI again.
>>>
>>> Jacob
>>
>> @Jacob: Worked like a charm. I wonder why it couldn't find the
>> configuration file (or why it couldn't create one).
>>
>>
>> --
>> M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
>> -----
>> PhD Student
>> University of Zürich
>> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/

@Jacob: u r totally right. If I run the gui from the gui folder
> ./bin/octave-gui
It doesn't work, but if I do
> cd bin
> ./octave-gui
It works perfectly.

Thank you


-- 
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
-----
PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/