Re: Gnuplot and Aqua term

[Liam Groener]

On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Jordan Ellis wrote:

> When I upgraded to Octave 3.2.3 the problem disappeared-that is
> the program accepted comments.
> 
> However I now find that the program  explicitly  invokes AquaTerm when 
> plotting
> and that it does not have enough space on the plot figure to plot the title 
> and the
> x axis label.
> 
> The 3.0.3  version did not invoke AquaTerm and had no problem plotting the
> title and x axis label.  Any suggestions ?

Well, one way to get X11 back as your graphics terminal is to issue the command:

export GNUTERM = x11

before starting up octave. I would have sworn there was a way to do this from 
within octave, but I can't find it now. Personally, I prefer the looks of the 
plots made with Aquaterm. It's true that labels and titles can plot outside the 
window (I think this is fixed with the development version of gnuplot or when 
using fltk with the development version of Octave. However, usually this is 
important only when you want to share your plots with others. In those cases it 
is convenient to "export" he plot by saving it to a pdf with:
   print <name>.pdf  
where <name> is your desired plot file name. The titles, et. al. will show up 
in the pdf when you open it in, say, Preview. You can then copy just the plot 
itself to the clipboard and paste it into a memo document or whatever. 

Liam G.