Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.alt.net From: Dale Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: no wxt terminal type Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 21:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Dale Lines: 39 Message-ID: <81pto7.s98.19.1@news.alt.net> References: <66ea5bd0-e152-4e94-addc-d62e1838a539@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:2652 On 2014-11-05, Ethan A Merritt 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 > > -- (my whereabouts below) http://www.dalekelly.org