Re: [Gnuplot-info] gnuplot invocation from Linux/Ubuntu GUI shell

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

On 16.12.2010 17:51, seb_kramm wrote:

> I'm a Windows user that just switched to Linux/ Ubuntu flavor 10.10, and I'm confused
> with gnuplot (4.4) invocation from the GUI shell (Nautilus).
> I'm ok with gnuplot generally, long-time user.
> I have associated .plt files to the gnuplot binary,

The effect you see is almost certainly caused by how you you set up that 
association.  I'll venture a guess: you used the -persist flag.  You get 
that behaviour because that's what -persist is meant (and documented) to do.

What probably caught you is one of the differences between the MS 
windows GUI version of gnuplot (wgnuplot) and the console version used 
everywhere else (now available on Windows, too, called "gnuplot"). 
wgnuplot has to run its own text input window, so that keeps open even 
if you -persist it.  The console version vanished in -persist state, so 
the only way to finish the session is by closing the window.

> I get the plot, the window is "alive" (mouse coordinates are shown), but I can't
> close it by pressing CR (or any other key). I have to kill the window (even closing
> it manually doesn't work).

There's no such thing as "killing a window".  There's killing a process, 
or closing a window.