Re:

[Francesco Potorti`]

>I checked in the following change to provide a
>--no-window-system option that will allow you to silence the message:
>
>  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/f2d354df53ee

Isn't that overkill?  An option whose only purpose is to silence a
warning?  Why not just removing the warning?

If the graphics backend needs X, let it care about warnings and error
messages.  I am sure I do not see the whole picture, but I hope that my
opinion may be useful.

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