help generating Plots on Mac Pro OSX 10.4.11

[David Monarres]

It appears that you do not have aqua term installed and are just  
using  X11 to display your plots. The reason that it doesn't work  
when you are working from apple's terminal is that by default the  
display isn't exported. If you typed echo $DISPLAY in xterm then you  
would probably get :0.0. Try typing export DISPLAY=:0.0 in the  
terminal before your start octave and see if the plots show up.
(making sure that X11 is running)

Another, probably better way, is to install aquaterm and set up  
gnuplot to use this as your output.


On Mar 3, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

>
> On Mar 3, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Stuart Borrett wrote:
>
>> I recently downloaded and installed both octave 3.0 and gnuplot 4.2
>> onto my Mac Pro running OSX 10.4.11.  I can run Octave successfully
>> from both the Terminal application and the xterm for X11.  When I
>> type plot(1:10) in the xterm, it generates the appropriate gnuplot.
>> However, when I issue the same command from mac Terminal or from
>> inside Emacs no figure appears.  I do not get an error message; it
>> seems to have worked just fine except that it does not draw the  
>> graph!
>>
>> I would appreciate any help you might provide.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> PS.  It works just fine on my MacBook Pro running OSX 10.4.11 using
>> the same disk images for Octave 3.0 and GNU Plot.
>
> I had the same problem with OSX 10.4. I don't recall the details that
> led to a resolution, but I do have a few questions that will hopefully
> help.
>
> (1) From where did you get Octave?
> (2) Do you have Aquaterm installed?
> (3) What do you get when the following is typed in a terminal window?
>
> 	echo $GNUTERM
> 	echo $GNUTERMAPP
>
> (4) What do you get when you type "gnuplot<TAB><TAB>" ... does the
> terminal display "gnuplot    gnuplotx"?
> (5) When you run gnuplot, does it immediately respond "Terminal type
> set to 'aqua'"?
> (6) What happens when you type "plot sin(x)" from the gnuplot prompt?
>
> Ben
>
>
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