OSX: Limited mouse functionality in gnuplot window

[Dr. Alexander Klein]

Hi,

just yesterday, when playing around with quiver3, I noticed that the  
gnuplot-window used for display offers very limited mouse  
functionality. It's impossible to change the viewing angle or zoom  
with the mouse when plotting from octave.

On the other hand, when I start gnuplot directly and make it plot  
something, for example with

splot sin(x)*cos(y) wi pm3d

I can rotate the plot and zoom.

This happens with

octave 3.2.3 and gnuplot 4.2.2 on OSX 10.5.8 as well as
octave 3.2.4 and gnuplot 4.4.3 on OSX 10.6.8.

both environments have setenv GNUTERM x11, and in all cases the  
programs were built from source without any package managers.

Am I still doing something wrong, or was this fixed in later versions  
of octave (which currently fail to compile for me)?

Kind regards,

        Alex

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