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Re: no wxt terminal type

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From	Dale <dale@dalekelly.org>
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Subject	Re: no wxt terminal type
Date	Fri, 5 Dec 2014 21:31:17 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-11-05, Ethan A Merritt <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> kevson59@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Just updated to Ubuntu 14.10.  Update included gnuplot 4.6 patch level 5.
>> 
>> Gnuplot no longer recognizes the terminal type wxt, which was the default
>> in previous versions, but sets the term type to 'X11' which is inferior. 
>> This also makes all my previous plotting scripts useless.
>
> You'll have to take that up with Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install gnuplot-x11
(or ? gnuplot_x11)
this sets it for me each time as default
>
> I suspect that the issue is that Debian decided to drop support for
> wxWidgets 2.8,  which is required by gnuplot in order to build the wxt
> terminal.  IMHO that was a poor decision, and I told them so, but
> obviously it's not my call.
>
> Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, I suppose they did the same.
>
> Based on previous back-and-forth with the Debian packagers, my understanding
> is that they plan to default to the qt terminal instead of wxt.
> Since the qt terminal is now better/faster/capable than either
> x11 or wxt (again IMHO) that seemed an acceptable plan to me.
> But if Ubuntu has dropped wxt and _not_ moved to qt to replace
> it then yeah, that would be a problem.
>
> I hope that's not the case.
>
>    Ethan
>
>


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    Re: no wxt terminal type Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2014-12-05 21:31 +0000
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