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| Started by | kevson59@gmail.com |
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| First post | 2014-11-04 16:47 -0800 |
| Last post | 2014-12-07 16:29 +0100 |
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no wxt terminal type kevson59@gmail.com - 2014-11-04 16:47 -0800
Re: no wxt terminal type Ethan A Merritt <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2014-11-04 17:32 -0800
Re: no wxt terminal type Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2014-12-05 21:31 +0000
Re: no wxt terminal type Gavin Buxton <gavinbuxton@gmail.com> - 2014-12-06 09:58 -0800
Re: no wxt terminal type Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2014-12-07 16:29 +0100
| From | kevson59@gmail.com |
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| Date | 2014-11-04 16:47 -0800 |
| Subject | no wxt terminal type |
| Message-ID | <66ea5bd0-e152-4e94-addc-d62e1838a539@googlegroups.com> |
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.
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| From | Ethan A Merritt <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> |
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| Date | 2014-11-04 17:32 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <m3bunl$ti0$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #2632 |
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. 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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| From | Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> |
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| Date | 2014-12-05 21:31 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <81pto7.s98.19.1@news.alt.net> |
| In reply to | #2633 |
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 > > -- (my whereabouts below) http://www.dalekelly.org
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| From | Gavin Buxton <gavinbuxton@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2014-12-06 09:58 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <804956ca-b600-487d-9f1d-d7517088c6d5@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #2632 |
Its available in linux mint as well.... I usually install it the same way as Dale.
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| From | Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> |
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| Date | 2014-12-07 16:29 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <m61rjn$65m$1@news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> |
| In reply to | #2632 |
Am 05.11.2014 um 01:47 schrieb kevson59@gmail.com: > 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. > As Ethan said, ubuntu kicked the gnuplot wxt terminal because it doesn´t compile/work (at least not flawlessly) with wxt3.0. wxWidgets 2.8 is still available in debian/Ubuntu (also 14.10), however. Which makes it even more strange they didn´t just build gnuplot with it. Building 4.6.6 or 5.0-rc3 with wxt works out of the box, if the developer package for wxgtk3.0 is not installed. Just download and unpack the gnuplot source, install via apt-get libwxgtk2.8-dev plus the development packages of libcairo, pango, etc. and do the usual configure/make/make install. Shouldn´t take more than half an hour, faster if you´ve done it before.
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