Re: default terminal?

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

On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> Quick question: is there a way to determine non-interactively what
> the default gnuplot terminal is?
>
> I'd like to be able to tell, for example, whether an "unknown"
> instance of gnuplot on X11 defaults to x11 or wxt.

On a linux system the default will be wxt if wxt is present at all.
So you could do
   ldd `which gnuplot` | grep wx
If you get a non-empty result, then the default is wxt.

For that matter, if you are sitting at a terminal you could say:

  echo "show term" | gnuplot '-'

But I think this might not work from a script.


You could, of course. force the default to whichever you like using
the environmental variable GNUTERM.



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