Octave GUI doesn't come up on windows 10 x64

(A) I installed Octave 4.4.1 on my machine running Windows 10 x64 version. I installed it at d:\Octave.

(B) When I click the desktop shortcut "GNU Octave (GUI)" after installation, it opens up Octave.vbs file instead of opening the GUI.

(C) I can start the CLI version though by double-clicking "D:\Octave\bin\octave-cli.exe". Nothing happens if I click the desktop shortcut "GNU Octave (CLI)".

(D) I tried starting "Start GUI" from octave command line. I got the following error:

      octave:1> start GUI
      error: 'start' undefined near line 1 column 1

(E) I have installed JRE before installing Octave (using "jre-8u201-windows-x64.exe"). In the command prompt, I can successfully run java command. The following is the output of "java-version":

    C:>java -version
    java version "1.8.0_201"
    Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_201-b09)
    Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.201-b09, mixed mode)

Any hint/help is appreciated.

fonishormon

Posted 2019-02-02T06:45:01.477

Reputation: 1

They octave --gui or octave --force-gui – Romeo Ninov – 2019-02-02T07:02:55.953

This sure works. Thanks a lot. Any idea why the shortcut not working? In fact, I examined the running octave window with process explorer and then created a shortcut with "c:\octave\bin\octave-gui.exe --gui --gui" as "Target" and "c:\octave\bin" as "Start in". The short cut doesn't work. – fonishormon – 2019-02-02T11:09:29.413

1I pinned it to task bar and that didn't work either. for the latter, the target is "C:\octave\octave.vbs --force-gui" and "Star in" is "%USERPROFILE%" the same as those for the installer created short cut. Though you have solved my problem, I am trying to understand if I should submit a defct on octave installer. – fonishormon – 2019-02-02T11:22:13.820

Send this defect to the developers – Romeo Ninov – 2019-02-02T18:10:37.043

Octave GUI doesn't come up on windows 10 x64

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