Problem with appearance of plots

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 16, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Lennart O wrote:

>
> Hi I'm having a problem with plots that are not very pretty. It's  
> almost like
> an old version of gnuplot is being used. The result looks very  
> crude. I
> should mention that I am using Octave 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.10. I took  
> some
> screenshots to show what I mean.
>
> Plot with Octave:
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p22048113/octave.png
>
> Plot with Gnuplot:
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p22048113/gnuplot.png
>
> Any idea how to fix this? Is it a problem with the Ubuntu package or  
> do I
> need to change some settings in Octave?
>
> ps. Sorry about the images being so large.

Octave is telling gnuplot to use the x11 terminal, and when you run  
gnuplot directly it is using the wxt terminal.

Try ...

	$ export GNUTERM=wxt
	$ octave

... and then do some plots.

Ben