FC3 and odds and ends

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

Just finished upgrading my system to Fedora Core 3.  Some observations...

Basically, gnuplot works very well.  (gnuplot 4.0 is on FC3)  CVS 
gnuplot compiles without problems.  FC3 deserves little fanfare, but I 
would say that the performance of X11 from RH7 to FC3 deserves a "wow!"  
The images have a great antialiasing effect and the speed is amazingly 
improved.  Even the polygon approximations seems to resize fairly fast.  
Very slick.


Here's an observation or two.  I notice at the command line that the 
help notice says

[sebald@localhost ~]$ gnuplot --help
Usage: gnuplot [OPTION]... [FILE]
for X11 options see 'help X11->command-line-options'

However, if one types "help X11" inside gnuplot, the subtopics do not 
get listed.  However, typing "help x11" does cause subtopics to be listed.

Also, the background of an X11 image doesn't come out as white unless I 
explicitly launch gnuplot as

[~]$ gnuplot -background white

otherwise it seems to be the default "grey" them color, which is 
slightly lighter than the "-background grey" option.  I'll investigate 
when I have time.

Dan