Re: octave: menus on figure windows not responsive

[Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

On 2015-01-29 01:53 +0800, Alan Barnett wrote:
> I'm running octave 3.8.1, emacs 24.3.50.2, and Ubuntu 24.04.
> I loaded the latest version of octave.el.
> I am able to run octave from emacs as an inferior process using the
> run-octave command.
>
> I have a problem with the graphics.  When I use the "plot" command, a
> window opens and the plot appears correctly,  The problem is that
> neither pulldown menus on the plot window nor the "x", "minimize", and
> "fullscreen" buttons in the upper right of the window frame are
> sensitive.  I therefore cannot close the window.
> I can move and resize the window using the mouse, but when I resize
> the window, the plot size doesn't change.
> In addition, I cannot open more than one window at a time;  if I use
> the "figure" command to open a new plot window, the old one closes.
>
> Has anyone else noticed this bug?  Is there a fix?

Could you try start emacs with -q or -Q and then load the latest
octave.el to see if this happens again? If yes, please report it by M-x
report-emacs-bug. Thanks.

Leo