Re: X11 terminal: dashes and test page

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 12/20/2012 10:08 PM, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 December 2012, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Someone on the Octave list brought up an issue with requiring "set
>> termoption dashed" to get dashed lines.  The conclusion was that most
>> terminals appear to work except X11.  I thought Ethan had added dashed
>> line support to X11 terminal some time ago.
>
> The problem is that x11 line types are controlled through the
> XResource mechanism rather than from the command line.
> You can do "set term x11 dash", but it only produces the
> expected result if you have defined the dashed line types
> in .XDefaults or another resource file.  This is all documented
> extensively.

Sounds familiar.  No luck so far, but where exactly these resource files 
are supposed to go is always tricky.


>> Well, that got me to checking into the X11 terminal with the latest
>> gnuplot CVS code.  I found that the "test" screen is failing.  As far
>> back as September 26:
>>
>> cvs -z3
>> -d:pserver:ano...@gn...:/cvsroot/gnuplot co -D
>> 2012-09-26 -P gnuplot
>>
>> things are beginning to not look correct.  On that date the height of
>> the test page is not correct within the X11 window.  By October 04:
>
> That was around the time that Dima Kogan's updates to x11 started
> to go in.  They introduce changes in the protocol used between gnuplot
> and gnuplot_x11.  I suspect that what has happened is that you upgraded
> gnuplot but did not replace an outdated installation of gnuplot_x11.
> Easy test:
>     cd .../src
>     setenv GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR .
>     ./gnuplot
>     set term x11; test

Ah yes.  I should have just installed.  Setting the variable works.

Thanks,

Dan