Re: GNUplot

[James R. Phillips]

--- Abby Anderson  wrote:

> I am using octave on Windows with Cygwin. When trying to plot, get the
> error message
> 
> gnuplot: unable to open display ':0.0'
> gnuplot: X11 aborted
> 
> How can I fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Abby Anderson
> 

Every cygwin package has some cygwin-specific documentation in the
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin directory. From
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/octave-2.1.73.README:
[...]
 2) Unless gnuplot is installed and X is started, calls to plotting functions
     will fail silently.  See
     http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting
     for more information.  The default cygwin "startxwin.sh" command
     starts X in multiwindow mode, which is recommended for use with
     octave and gnuplot.  You may want to edit the file to comment out
     the xterm invocation.

James R. Phillips
cygwin octave maintainer



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