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Re: Terminal as default

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Dieter Britz wrote:

> On Tue, 29 May 2012 18:40:02 +0200, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> 
>> On 29.05.2012 17:08, Dieter Britz wrote:
>>> I have just had the new Suse 12.1 Linux installed, and with it,
>>> gnuplot. How do I now set it such that the terminal is the default for
>>> plotting? It is sometimes handy to quickly plot on the screen before
>>> going on to postscript etc.
>> 
>> You rather certainly can't, because if the version of gnuplot you
>> installed (SuSE probably has several to pick from) had any such terminal
>> driver available, that would _already_ be the default.
>> 
>> I.e. if gnuplot starts with none of the GUI drivers being the default,
>> you either don't have any GUI driver compiled because you picked the
>> wrong gnuplot installation package, or you have a configuration item in
>> place that overrides the default (GNUTERM environment variable, 'set
>> term' in your ~/.gnuplot or in the actual script you're running).  So
>> you can't set such a default, as such --- if anything, you have to
>> remove _your_ override of the default.
> 
> Thanks. I installed it using the zypper install command. I guess I
> can live with no plots on the screen.

The command "set term" should produce a list of available terminal types.
Pick the one you want and place it in the environmental variable GNUTERM.

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Terminal as default Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2012-05-29 15:08 +0000
  Re: Terminal as default Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2012-05-29 18:40 +0200
    Re: Terminal as default Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2012-05-30 13:38 +0000
      Re: Terminal as default sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2012-05-30 15:43 -0700
  Re: Terminal as default Lee <hogney@gmail.com> - 2012-06-04 14:48 -0700

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