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geany package

Geany doesn't show graphics correctly when running a GNU Octave script

Bug #1020796 reported by Sergio Benjamim on 2012-07-04

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	geany (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Geany doesn't show graphics correctly when running a GNU Octave script. Depending on the time that the script takes to run, it is not possible to observe the graph generated (it is very fast to show, sometimes). It just closes all windows of graphics at the end of the script execution, like the example video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MULOHJZjrL4

When I run an Octave script under terminal, or just copy the text to the terminal, I can see the graphics.

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Sergio Benjamim (sergio-br2) wrote on 2012-07-04:

An example of how geany quickly shows graphics from GNU Octave Edit (7.6 KiB, text/plain)

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bomastudio (bomastudio) wrote on 2012-11-03:

I have the same problem.

Ubuntu 12.04
Intel i7-740QM L3 cache
4 Gb DDr3
Nvidia Geforce GT420M

Geany 0.21

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-11-03:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in geany (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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GOLDERWEB (golderweb) wrote on 2014-12-29:

A workaround is to add option persist (octave -q --persist "%f") to the execute command for octave in build menu commands dialog (@ref http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#build-menu-commands-dialog) so octave won't terminate itself.

As you should terminate octave by hand after finishing execution also consider not to use the geany VTE Terminal
(@ref http://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html#terminal-vte-preferences)