Re: "errors" when running plot

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 10, 2009, at 8:14 PM, ws wrote:

> > I suspect the error is unrelated to plotting. For Linux, I understand
> > that an x11 call is used to determine the size and dpi of your  
> > screen.
> >
> > Do you not have x11 running at all?
>
> Umm, no ... why would I have X11 running on a Linux server, located in
> somebody's closet, basically? (Oh the culture shock!)  Relying on  
> X11 for
> things besides windowing seems bad to me.
>
> Thanks for working with me Ben!  Hopefully this is useful to someone  
> besides
> me....
>
> One thing is that if you are running a server, superfluous messages  
> like about
> X11 not being set can really screw you up, and (at the very least)  
> generate a
> lot of annoying email messages via cron.  So unless it really  
> matters, they
> should be eliminated.  I slightly customized my gnuplot installation  
> to get rid
> of a stupid warning about the fonts that they introduced with the  
> last release.

Ok, I located the source of the warning. It is line 124 of src/ 
display.cc.

If you'd like to propose a change to display.cc that would only effect  
non-MacOSX unix systems, and would only give a warning when X11 is  
present and running, we can discuss it on the developers list.

Ben