Re: confirming X behavior

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 May 2006 02:42 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
>>Ethan Merritt wrote:
>>
>>>Have you tried out the dashed lines?
>>
>>Funny you should say, because I'm investigating right now.  In some
>>cases I'm seeing dashed lines for the axis, sometimes not.  (See
>>attached.)  Sometimes the plots themselves now have dashed blue and
>>purple lines (but solid red), sometimes not.  I think my running as
>>superuser in one window and not-superuser in another may be what is
>>going on.
> 
> 
> I can't think why being superuser should make a difference per se.
> You may have different initialization files in the respective
> login directories, but the X resources are a property of the server
> rather than the individual user.  So unless your two windows are
> somehow using two different X servers, they should act the same.
> 
> That's a different question from logging out and then logging in
> again as a different user.  In that case you may load a different
> set of X resources into the server during login.

I think I see where the dashed lines are coming from.  When I go back now to an older version of gnuplot the lines are coming out as dashes.  (Newer versions have solid lines.)  It has been for the longest time that these were solid lines.  (I don't know, maybe they were supposed to be dashed all along.)

Does the most recent gnuplot installation create or overwrite an .Xdefaults file?

And still, there is the issue that the axis line is not solid in the latest CVS where the default seemed to be dashed line before.

Dan