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FS#12102 - octave plots are not working corectly

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Nathanael Schaeffer (john_schaf) - Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 10:39 GMT
Last edited by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 23:25 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
When using octave for a simple plot, one cannot zoom in using the mouse.
The default plotting terminal is X11 (which is ugly)
forcing it to wxt with export GNUTERM='wxt' in my .bashrc switch to wxt interface for plotting (as expected) but
the controls (zoom, toggle grid ...) are not working.

However, using gnuplot directly, everything works with the wxt terminal by default.
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Closed by  Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 23:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  as you said, it's an upstream bug. If you happen to find an easy fix/patch I'm happy to look at it, otherwise let's wait till they implement it upstream.
Comment by Nathanael Schaeffer (john_schaf) - Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 10:45 GMT
Ok, I'm sorry, but this seems to be an upstream bug. From page http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-3.html :

"Octave now sends data over the same pipe that is used to send commands to gnuplot. While this avoids the problem of cluttering /tmp with data files, it is no longer possible to use the mouse to zoom in on plots. This is a limitation of gnuplot, which is unable to zoom when the data it plots is not stored in a file. Some work has been done to fix this problem in newer versions of gnuplot (> 4.2.2). See for example, this thread on the gnuplot development list. "

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