From help-request at octave dot org Sun Dec 11 18:57:12 2005 Subject: Re: aquaterm From: "John B. Thoo" To: Joe Koski Cc: Octave Help , "Thomas M. Canty" Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:54:52 -0800 Joe--- On Dec 11, 2005, at 2:07 PM, Joe Koski wrote: > on 12/11/05 11:50 AM, Thomas M. Canty at tmcanty at eden dot rutgers dot edu > wrote: > >> I just installed, octave, gnuplot, and aquaterm, but I am having >> trouble getting octave to recognize aquaterm. It will only set term >> to x11. What am I doing wrong? I did install gnuplot first, but >> once I got aquaterm running, i reinstalled gnuplot. >> >> Tom Canty >> > I keep the lines > > export GNUTERM=aqua > export DISPLAY=:0.0 > > In my .bash_profile and .bashrc files in my home directory (OS X > 10.3.9 with > bash shell), and that seems to tell gnuplot where to find aquaterm. If > you > don't have those files yet, you can create them with a text editor. > Alternatively, you can gset aqua in octave each time you want a plot. > You > don't need X11 running to work with aquaterm. Following your example, above, I put in those two lines in my .profile file and gnuplot used Aquaterm to plot. Very neat. That was the first time I had ever used Aquaterm. Two questions (not Octave related per se). 1. Using an X11 window, I can rotate a (3d) plot by using the mouse and the Ctrl key, but I couldn't do that with Aquaterm as it was. How? 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Aquaterm vs. X11? TIA. ---John. ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------