Re: set term x11 dash

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

On Friday 05 June 2009, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> It seems x11 supports the "dash" option, but ignores this.
> Is the dash line functionality not implemented?

It is implemented and fully functional.
It just happens to look terrible on the screen, so the default
settings don't use it :-)

The definition of dash types is controlled by Xresources.
See the file Gnuplot.app-defaults for full information.

> Could wxt add also this option?

Almost certainly.  The pdfcairo terminal support "dashed", so the
support must be there in the underlying cairo library.