Re: gnuplot and DISPLAY

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> Allin Cottrell wrote:
>>
>> (2) After applying Daniel's patch and recompiling, my "set term
>> png" echoed to gnuplot produced a failure (as before), but in
>> addition
>>
>>    echo "show version long" | gnuplot
>>
>> now produced the same X11 failure!
>
> Strange.  What is the strace this time?

I didn't check that; I can, if it's of interest.  But here's one 
more piece of information.  I now suspect that this may be a bug 
in gnome-terminal.  I was running the test in gnome-terminal and 
it occurred to me to try doing the same thing in an xterm: lo and 
behold, no problem!  That is, my original test

  echo "set term png" | gnuplot && echo "OK"

works fine, over the same 2-stage ssh connection from home to 
campus, when executed in an xterm.

All the same, it's bizarre that the problem doesn't occur with 
older gnuplot versions.

Allin Cottrell