help generating Plots on Mac Pro OSX 10.4.11

[Marius Schamschula]

On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> 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


Unless, you set the following environmental variable in one of your  
bash shell's rc files:

DISPLAY=:0.0
export DISPLAY

This works fine under 10.3 and 10.4...

...and indeed is no longer needed under 10.5.

Marius
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