Re: Octave plot graphics window

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

You have to execute x11 server by startx or startxwin.bat.
This is not the matter of octave.
Further questions, it might be better to ask at the Cygwin ML but not here, I 
think.

Regards

Tatsuro 
--- findtype wrote:

> Thank you.  I tried to install by running the setup.  X11 was listed (so I
> re-installed it),  but the setup list had no xterm, gnuplot, xorg-server, or
> xinit.  How can I install these in order to get an xterm window?
> Ted
> 
> 
> 2011/3/18 Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden>
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > --- Ben Abbott  wrote:
> >
> > > On Mar 17, 2011, at 7:58 PM, findtype wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:06 PM, marco atzeri <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > > >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:42 PM, findtype  wrote:
> > > >> > Hi,
> > > >> > I'm trying use Octave on Cygwin.  The Octave plot function is
> > generating a
> > > >> > "printer-plot" in the command window.  How can I get a graphics
> > window
> > > >> > opened to contain the plot?
> > > >> > Thanks for any help.
> > > >> > Ted
> > > >>
> > > >> something like
> > > >>
> > > >> octave:2> plot(x,x)
> > > >> warning: X11 DISPLAY environment variable not set
> > > >> ...
> > > >>
> > > >> You should start octave inside xterm (and with X11 server running of
> > course ) .
> > > >>
> > > >> Marco
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for your reply.  Yes, the warning about "X11 DISPLAY" is
> > exactly what appears.  But
> > > I'm working on a stand-alone PC running cygwin.  So there's no "X11
> > server."  Is there another
> > > way to get the octave plots?
> > > >
> > > > Ted
> > >
> > > I'm not a windows user, but ... sssuming you have gnuplot installed and
> > that it was built to
> > > support the windows terminal, from Octave you can try ...
> > >
> > >       close all
> > >       setenv ("GNUTERM", "windows")
> > >       plot (1:10)
> >
> > Currently on windows, only cygwin version is avaiable for version 3.4.
> > Thus
> >
> > >       setenv ("GNUTERM", "windows")
> >
> > is not correct.
> > For Cygwin, one should install X11 and gnuplot for cygwin by CYgwin setup
> > command.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tatsuro
> >
> >
>