Re: [Matplotlib-users] error with text object properties using matplotlib 0.98.1

[Darren D. <dsd...@gm...>]

On Tuesday 15 July 2008 09:22:10 am David Kaplan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I guess the problem was mostly mine.  To my eyes, the Bitstream Vera
> Serif doesn't look very "serif" to me (figure attached), but I am
> probably just not used to that font.  Changing font.serif as suggested
> produced much more similar output.  Thanks and sorry for the unnecessary
> confusion.
>
> However, this brought me to another strange problem.  When I added a
> matplotlibrc file to ~/.matplotlib/ and ran ipython -pylab, none of my
> graphic screens appear (i.e., figure() produces no visible window).
> Plotting works and I can save figures, but they just are not visible.
> It makes no difference what is in the matplotlibrc, an empty file
> produces the same result as a file with directives in it.  Removing
> matplotlibrc allows me to see the plot window.  Does this make any
> sense?

Agg appears to be your default backend. You can set a GUI backend in your 
matplotlibrc and then you will get your windows back.

Darren