Re: "errors" when running plot

[ws]

John W. Eaton <jwe <at> octave.org> writes:

> 
> I have already had a request for a --no-windowing-system option for
> Octave, and I think it would be a good thing to have.  If this option
> is provided, Octave would skip the calls that attempt to determine the
> screen size and dpi and just use the defaults, same as now with
> DISPLAY="" but without the warning.  Would you like to contribute a
> patch to implement that feature?

Lil-old-me contribute a patch!?  I love Octave mailing list -- nobody else gets 
to the "want it different -- send a patch!" quite so quick.

I will think about it.  I would be in favor of automagically silencing warnings 
if the evidence is that there is no X11 running at all.  If this is a 
possibility, then I would consider writing a patch.  To be honest, I won't 
write a patch if there MUST be a command line switch to silence the warnings, 
since I don't want that behavior anyway, though I would happily include such a 
switch to force the behavior.  

Does this sound reasonable? should we switch to developers?  Could you give me 
a link to any feature requests or discussions?

Thx!
W