help generating Plots on Mac Pro OSX 10.4.11

[Ben Abbott]

On Tuesday, March 04, 2008, at 11:50AM, "Stuart Borrett" <stuart.borrett at gmail.com> wrote:
>Ben, David, et al.,
>Thank you for your help.  I have installed Aquaterm on my Mac Pro and this
>now allows Octave to plot.
>
>I remain confused however as to why Octave can plot on my MacBook Pro.  It
>plots fine and as far as I can tell does not have Aquaterm installed.
>
>One last thought.  Is there anyway for Octave to take advantage of
>Hyperthreading and/or multiple processors?  I just ran a comparison with
>Matlab, and Octave was MUCH slower and I believe the reason is that it could
>only use one thread/core.
>
>Thanks again for your help.
>
>Respectfully,
>
>Stuart
>

Any chance your MacBookPro is running OSX 10.5 (Leopard)?

If so x11 apps will launch from the terminal window. Prior to 10.5, x11 apps would only launch from an xterm window.

Ben