> I will check the matplotlibrc, but why should the Agg default backend not > work?
Because 'Agg' is a "file-based" backend, that you use when you want to generate a file as output (a PNG, f.e.), so savefig() works while show() not. You are looking for a GUI backend, something like TkAgg, GTKAgg or Qt4Agg, that calling show() will generate a window with the graph in it. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users