Re: gnuplot and DISPLAY

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

On Thursday 08 March 2007 19:32, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
> Recall there was a bit of a discussion about the x11 terminal 
> looking for the location of gnuplot_x11 at start up, i.e., 
> part of x11's initialization but since x11 is the default terminal

Yes, but this patch was supposed to fix it:

2006-11-05 
        * src/term.c (init_term): Normally we initialize the default terminal
        immediately on program entry. However, if the default is x11 then defer
        initialization until an actual plot command.  This mitigates problems
        if gnuplot_x11 cannot be started normally, and allows the user to select
        a different driver in the case that x11 is the default but is broken.
        Bug #1530601

Looks like the patch didn't actually get applied to the 4.2 branch.
Oops.


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742