Octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 22, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Robert Fong-tom wrote:

> Hi,
> I recently ported Octave successfully but there are some things which
> I don't understand. My understanding is that Aquaterm is a dependency
> of octave and that it would be installed as a part of theh Octave
> port. In fact, when I tried to port Octave the first time it failed
> because I had Aquaterm installed previously. After deleting Aquaterm
> (and all files relating to it) manually, the porting of Octave was
> successful. However, I don't seem to be able to call Aquaterm. A
> number of files relating to Aquaterm was ported along with Octave
> however. Right now I am plotting via X11 but would like to switch to
> plotting via Aquaterm since it produces better looking plots.
> Bob

in your .profile, .bashrc, .xinitrc or what ever shell startup script  
you are using, be sure that GNUTERM is set to "aqua"

	set GNUTERM=aqua

Ben