Re: [OctDev] Octave/Gnuplot: set terminal windows

[Martin H. <ma...@mh...>]

Am 05.10.2012 16:51, schrieb Greg:
> Hello again for my second question of the day:
>
> I'm trying to use Gnuplot with Octave. After quite a big number of
> tries, I found this funny thing: 
>
> The command "peaks" typed in Octave compiled with Microsoft Visual
> uses the 'wxt' terminal, wheras the Octave compiled with MinGW uses
> the 'windows' terminal. 
>
> The situation is the following: I need to use the Microsoft Visual
> package, but I want the 'windows' terminal of Gnuplot. 
>
> I have created a GNUPLOT.INI in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming with
> the single line "set terminal windows". It works because after that,
> running directly Gnuplot and typing "plot sin(x)" uses the 'windows'
> terminal. 
>
> And the problem is that the "peaks" command still runs Gnuplot with
> the 'wxt' terminal. It seems that Gnuplot ignores this config file
> when called by Octave. 
>
> How to change this behaviour and use the 'windows' terminal when
> plotting from Octave? 
>
>
> Thanks! 
>
>
> Greg
>
you set that within octave by

setenv ("GNUTERM", "windows");

you may want to add this command to your .octaverc file, I do not know
where this is located on windows (on Linux it is in /home/username so I
guess in windows it is something like c:\user\username)