Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail From: =?windows-1252?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=F6ker?= Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: Point Gnuplot to X11 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:44:25 +0100 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.dfncis.de 0EP8MVH/EJ9tY64ZeuYMZw1kj75O47voQo38/6HjUsvY9fYF0OyekcrCS6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:xI2k47gSp9YoLRDp4R1eZcB8BIg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:2783 Am 23.02.2015 um 01:20 schrieb Erik Zweigle: > gnuplot: unable to open display > '/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.E35rye5Llh/org.macosforge.xquartz:0' > It seems that gnuplot is looking for X11 in a temporary file that has > been erased. I'm afraid you're rather completely misunderstanding that message. That's not a file it's looking for. It's a DISPLAY. Those would usually be not a file, but rather an (abbreviated) IP address / hostname plus some X11-specific extension. The usual shortest form is ":0", which is equivalent to "the first display on localhost". The exact form to be used is a property of your X11 server. You _are_ running one, I hope? | I decided to upgrade gnuplot to 5.0.0 and point it to the correct > X11.app location in /Applications/Utilities/ . I modified line 294 > of the makefile but still receive the same message No wonder. DISPLAY is not something to be set in Makefiles. You set that in your environment, to tell X11 programs where their display is to show up.