Re: figure: requires X11 and valid DISPLAY

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-May-2006, Matthias Brennwald wrote:

| Dear Etienne et al,
| 
| On 18.05.2006, at 14:28, Etienne Grossmann wrote:
| 
| >   Matthias, do I get it correctly that
| >
| >   __gnuplot_set__ terminal aqua
| 
| No, that works fine. What doesn't work properly with the aqua  
| terminal is the 'figure()' command in Octave. I just re-read the help  
| for the figure command, where it is clearly stated that 'figure'  
| requires X11... so obviously it's not exactly a bug if the figure  
| command does not work with a gnuplot terminal other than X11.

In 2.9.x the figure command will work for any terminal type because
Octave starts a separate gnuplot process for each figure instead of
relying on the gnuplot terminal to provide this feature.

jwe