Changing terminal for gnuplot

[Ivan Sutoris]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Alex Roper <alexr at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I control where octave plots things? In particular, I am writing a script and
> don't want it trying to pop up windows all over the place and freaking out when it
> discovers X isn't installed. I used to be able to "set terminal dumb" or something like
> that, but I see this has been removed for matlab compatibility in recent versions.
>
> However, when matlab is run without X, it just works.
>
> Sorry for asking something so simple, but I can't find it anywehre in the docs and google
> is still telling me to "set terminal dumb".
>
> Alex

Hi

you can use

  figure('visible', 'off')

to create new figure offscreen, which may be then exported (after
plotting) with "print" command.

Regards
Ivan Sutoris