Ok, I've found the problem. gnuplot is trying to send the drawing to a terminal I don't have. When I tried the recommended command, I got:
plot2d( x^2, [x, -4, 4], [plot_format, gnuplot] ); set term wxt size 640,480 font ",12"; set term pop ^ "/Users/sean/maxout.gnuplot", line 1: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a list This inspired me to try this command, and it works: plot2d( x^2, [x, -4, 4], [gnuplot_term, "aqua"] ); When I launch gnuplot, it goes straight to the aqua terminal by default, so I don't know what setting is causing maxima to request wxt by default. Sean On Jan 23, 2014, at 18:10, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/23/14 6:00 PM, Robert Dodier wrote: >> On 2014-01-23, Sean Lake <odysseus9...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Is the plot2d command no longer supposed to launch gnuplot? >> >> Well, it is still supposed to launch Gnuplot, as it used to. The problem >> seems to be platform-dependent -- the example you gave works OK for me. >> What does build_info(); report? >> >> Does it make any difference if the plot_format is gnuplot instead of >> gnuplot_pipes? i.e., plot2d(..., [plot_format, gnuplot]); >> >> Sorry I can't be more helpful, >> >> Robert Dodier >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Maxima mailing list >> max...@math.utexas.edu >> http://www.math.utexas.edu/mailman/listinfo/maxima >> > > I've got the same Maxima build settings and OS version (OS X 10.8) as does > Sean, but I didn't reproduce his results (I sent him here and then later had > a chance to do a runtime check). > > Maybe it's restricted to a particular gnuplot terminal? I've got GNUTERM set > to "aqua" to use Aquaterm. > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users