Octave took over Terminal.app in Mac OS X

[Thomas Treichl]

Louyclare schrieb:
> I have installed Octave 3.0.0 on my Intel Mac OS 10.4.11. It seems to 
> have configured itself to automatically run in the Terminal.app. This 
> behavior is fine with me, however, whenever I launch the Terminal.app to 
> run a shell (e.g. bash or tcsh) it automatically launches in Octave. The 
> first line in the Terminal is: imac-2006:~ louyclare$ exec 
> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave' When I quit 
> Octave, the Terminal.app window closes. Bringing up a new Terminal 
> window simply re-launches Octave. This behavior is unaffected by the 
> Terminal Preferences settings. The setting for "When creating a new 
> Terminal window:" has two radio button options: 1) Execute the default 
> login shell using /usr/bin/login and 2) Execute this comand (specify 
> complete path): /I have /bin/bash in the area provided/. Does anybody 
> know how I can run Octave in the Terminal.app and still launch 
> Terminal.app in a shell?

Hi Louyclare,

This should be working per default. Normally, if you double-click Octave.app's 
icon then a Terminal.app opens and executes Octave inside (so Octave doesn't run 
as a bash replacement but is executed from bash with the line exec 
'/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave' - can you reproduce that?).

If you double-click the Terminal.app icon then Terminal.app opens. There is some 
setting on Macs where this may be overwritten but it is not overwritten from 
Octave.app. Somebody already reported such a behaviour some time ago but I don't 
know how it was fixed, maybe this helps for you

   http://www.nabble.com/octave-stole-my-Terminal-td12640966.html#a12642832

If you find out more details then please let us know about it.

   Thomas

PS. My radio-button options settings of Terminal.app always is 1) Execute the 
default login shell using /usr/bin/login