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Re: it seems my Gnuplot 4.0 didn't read my ~/.Xdefaults

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Around 2/24/06 is a discussion with the subject as I copied to this email header.  Has this been resolved, if only it means a change to x11.trm documentation?  I'm trying to help John Eaton figure out why he doesn't get dashed color lines using "set term x11 dashed".  He gets dashed lines for monochrome.  I was wondering if some X resource of his has those lines set all solid, or dashed is turned off, or something.  But I don't know where to point him to.

My own .Xdefaults didn't do anything so I printed out file names in gplt_x11.c and found .Xdefaults-local is what gplt_x11.c is looking for.  Changing my X defaults from .Xdefaults to .Xdefaults-local fixes the problem.  I searched previous discussions for "Xdefaults-" and found the 2/24/06 thread.

The discussion reveals quite a few options, but the x11.trm documentation basically says .Xdefaults which helps only a little in this case.  Maybe it should be worded ".Xdefaults or any of its variants".  Or will that only send people on an even worse quest?

OK, use color.  :-)  But there is still the issue of other things that one might want to put in .Xdefaults but it has no effect if gnuplot_x11 is looking for .Xdefaults-local and the user doesn't know that.  (I can't seem to find any unix documentation on the Internet about filename variations for .Xdefaults.)

Dan

Re: it seems my Gnuplot 4.0 didn't read my ~/.Xdefaults

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:50, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Around 2/24/06 is a discussion with the subject as I copied to this email header.
> Has this been resolved, if only it means a change to x11.trm documentation?

What is there to resolve, exactly?

> I'm trying to help John Eaton figure out why he doesn't get dashed color lines
> using "set term x11 dashed".  

Because the default for color displays in not to use dashed lines.
To force it on:

   echo "gnuplot*dashed: on" | xrdb -merge


> I was wondering if some X resource of his has those lines set all solid

That's possible also, but then you wouldn't get dashed lines in mono either.


-- 
Ethan A Merritt                                 Courier Deliveries: 1959 NE Pacific
Dept of Biochemistry    M/S 357742
Health Sciences Building
University of Washington - Seattle

Re: it seems my Gnuplot 4.0 didn't read my ~/.Xdefaults

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 14:05, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> 
> Because the default for color displays in not to use dashed lines.
> To force it on:
> 
>    echo "gnuplot*dashed: on" | xrdb -merge

To expand a bit - the above command will change the default to be
dashed.  Whether or not you change the default, you can still toggle
it inside gnuplot by saying
	set term x11 {dashed|solid}

To make sure you have a set of dash patterns loaded:

	xrdb -merge < /home/local/lib/X11/app-defaults/Gnuplot.app-defaults

(or wherever you put them)

-- 
Ethan A Merritt                                 Courier Deliveries: 1959 NE Pacific
Dept of Biochemistry    M/S 357742
Health Sciences Building
University of Washington - Seattle

Re: it seems my Gnuplot 4.0 didn't read my ~/.Xdefaults

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

> Because the default for color displays in not to use dashed lines.
> To force it on:
> 
>    echo "gnuplot*dashed: on" | xrdb -merge

Oh, that might do it.  I'll pass that along.  Thanks.

>>I was wondering if some X resource of his has those lines set all solid
> 
> 
> That's possible also, but then you wouldn't get dashed lines in mono either.

Good point.

Dan

Re: it seems my Gnuplot 4.0 didn't read my ~/.Xdefaults

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Hans pointed me to the "man X" documentation for details about Xdefaults.  Since that documentation says:

$HOME/.Xdefaults-<hostname>

it might be good that gnuplot's documentation state the same, rather than just .Xdefaults.  (Or, not mention the file at all and instead give the "xrdb" utility.)

Dan