Re: mouse on MacOSX/X11

[Timothée Lecomte]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 14-Jul-2005, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>
> | I cannot get  mouse to work on gnuplot windows when using octave on MacOSX
> | (10.4) with X11  term enabled. I can get Option-Click and Command-Click to 
> | do what they suppose to do on a standalone gnuplot. 
> | I did set mouse in .gnuplot .gnuplotrc .octaverc etc..
> | I see that Option-Click does something different (minimizes Term windows?)
> | from simple Click, but not what I expect. 
> | 
> | Any help?
>
> The problem appears to happen when gnuplot is receiving commands
> through a pipe.  I don't think the problem is specific to Octave.
> For example, try this:
>
>  echo "set mouse; plot sin(x)" | gnuplot -persist
>
> and see whether the mouse works as you expect.  When I try it with
> gnuplot 4.0 patchlevel 0 on a Debian x86 system, it does not work the
> same as when I run gnuplot interactively.  When the commands are piped
> in, the coordinates appear in the lower left of the plot window as I
> move the cursor around, but the cursor remains an arrow pointer
> instead of a cross and zooming does not work.
>
> jwe
>
>  
Hi !

I'm not sure if it's the exact answer to your problem, but you can find 
the following in the gnuplot FAQ :

" If your gnuplot is running as the plotting engine of Octave under X11, 
then please put gset mouse into your $HOME/.octaverc. According to 
gnuplot's help x11, gnuplot under x11 running through a pipe needs set 
mouse to be executed before launching the x11 plot window. "

It works for me : I had the same problem when first installing octave 
and gnuplot (under linux, with x11) and it works now as expected with 
"gset mouse" in ~/.octaverc .

You should maybe contact the gnuplot's mailing list : 
address@hidden

Greetings,

Timothée Lecomte
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