Re: Real-time plots under X11/Exceed

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

On Thursday 28 October 2004 08:46 am, pa...@mi... wrote:
> 
>   2) How to iconify gnuplot windows (other through -noraise option)
>    so when window is inconified gnuplot does not eat X11 resources.

I have placed a patchset on SourceForge that causes gnuplot_x11
to skip most of the actual X11 commands if the plot window is currently
iconified.  It still reads and buffers new commands coming from gnuplot,
however, so the CPU does not go to zero.

I don't really think this will accomplish much in practice.
The only way I was able to test it was to put gnuplot in an infinite
loop of continual replotting.  But this is not a reasonable thing to do.

Anyhow, you are welcome to try it out.  If it really does solve a 
problem, please let us know.

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Ethan A Merritt       merritt@u.washington.edu
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