Re: OSX: Limited mouse functionality in gnuplot window

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 15, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Dr. Alexander Klein wrote:

> 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


I understand that you have GNUTERM set to x11 in each case, but is the window 
under octave actually x11 or is it an aquaterm window? Does aquaterm start when 
you plot?

Ben