Re: x11 terminal activation

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Jacques Bouchard wrote:

> Hello Ethan,
> Thanks for your answer.
> 
> So if I understand well, several X11 terminals may be displayed but only 
>   the last one is really _alive_, ie will react properly to mouse events 
> (pause command triggering, zooming, etc.). With the other X11 terminals, 
> you can only:
> - resize the window
> - have the current mouse coordinates displayed (but not with a 
> configurable format)
> 
> If there were a way to trigger the pause command from a non-active X11 
> terminal (and then to know its id), it would be possible to activate it 
> (by replotting it).

Not by replotting.  The entire information needed to do that replot is
lost after you make some other plot.  The bottleneck is not the window
state, or its connection to gnuplot, but the fact that the gnuplot core
engine itself doesn't have a way of controlling more than one plot at a
time.  I.e. you can't regenerate any other plot than the most recent one
by 'replot' --- you have to re-run the entire script that generates it.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.