I am trying to use the pylab plot command on my laptop running Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper). Although the plot command works fine on my XP desktop at work, I cannot open the plot window on the laptop. I edited matplotlibrc to change interactive: to "True". In idle, I entered the commands: >>> from pylab import * >>> plot([1,2,3])
The terminal window closed abruptly when I typed the closing parenthesis. I have been warned not to use the show() command in interactive mode. I tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ idle-python2.4 -n In idle -n, I entered the sam two commands. This time I got an error message: The program 'idle-python2.4' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'. (Details: serial 2875 error_code 3 request_code 15 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) Using the Python prompt without idle, I got no error message, but the window simply didn't open: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python Python 2.4.3 (#2, Mar 7 2008, 01:58:20) [GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from pylab import * >>> plot([1,2,3]) [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D instance at 0xb7bf04cc>] Have I skipped a step? Thanks for all the great information on your group. Bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list