terminal quirks, wxt vs qt

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

Playing with 5.0-rc1 on Linux, I noticed an asymmetry with the wxt and qt 
terminals. Say you want to open a 3-D plot file and rotate the image 
interactively. With term = wxt it's enough to do

gnuplot 3dfile -persist

but with term = qt (using qt 4, at any rate) you don't get interaction, 
that requires a controlling terminal window, as in

xterm -e gnuplot gp3d.plt -

Sorry if I'm just repeating something well known, but this difference is 
relevant if gnuplot is being launched by a third-party program; it's much 
more elegant not to have to open a parent terminal window.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC