Re: [OS X] octave cannot start a properly working gnuplot

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 28, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Leo Liu wrote:

> On 2013-04-28 13:52 +0800, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> I'm running XQuartz 2.6.5.
>> 
>> I don't have any good ideas for how to debug this (we are running
>> different versions of MacOS, different versions of X11, and different
>> versions of gnuplot). What would be helpful is to find an install of
>> MacOS 10.8 that is able to display the debug.gp file correctly.
>> 
>> When you reported the problem to gnuplot, did you encounter anyone
>> running MacOS 10.8?
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> For the record.
> 
> I believe this is a bug in XQuartz 2.7.4. My solution is to build
> gnuplot with aquaterm support.
> 
> Leo

Personally, I prefer gnuplots "qt" terminal.  It allows the mouse to 
pan/zoom/rotate and octave is able to use the "close()" command to close the 
window.  You may want to give it a try.

Ben