#!/usr/bin/env bash # Simple Bash script to emulate octave-gui (available only after v4.0.0) # (C) Lilian Besson, 2015 echo -e "Starting Octave GUI..." notify-send "Octave" "Starting the Octave GUI..." /usr/bin/octave --force-gui --silent --verbose --traditional --persist "$@" ; notify-send "Octave" "Exiting the Octave GUI..." echo -e "(done with the script $0)."