Re: Octave 4.0 for Mac?

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 27, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Robert McDonald wrote:

> First, thanks for making this available! Very nice.
> 
> My problem is that plot is not working. I believe this is an OS X
> issue not an octave issue but I'm hoping that someone here can point
> me in the right direction.
> 
> I used macports to install gnuplot, and I have X11 installed. When I
> run "plot(x)", octave returns me to the prompt with no error messages.
> I can print("test.eps","-deps2"), and create an eps file. But I can't
> see the plot. I can launch gnuplot from the command line and can run a
> script, but again can't see a plot.
> 
> Any pointers? Thanks!
> 
> Bob


Octave may be trying to use Aquaterm to display the figures.

At the octave prompt, try typing ...

        getenv ("GNUTERM", "x11")

Does that fix the problem?

Ben