On Jan 12, 11:00 am, emil <emil.widm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hm, I ask that here because it seems related somehow. Is there a way > to make plotting behave normal from the python commandline? I know > that from the notebook it will show all pictures which are stored in > the notebook directory. I also readhttp://uw.sagenb.org/home/pub/9/ > > So question is, can settings be changed so that > from pylab import * > x = linspace(-1,1,1000) f = sin(6*x) + sin(60*exp(x)) > plot(x,f,'k') > > actually produces a plot from the commandline? > > I have a related problem with getting Texmacs to show sage plots, > there is always a message about a missing matplotlib GUI backend. > Does anybody has pointers how I could fix this? > > thanks! > emil My guess is that matplotlib was built without the gui. I build Sage from source and in that case it is necessary to set an environment variable. For example in bash: export SAGE_MATPLOTLIB_GUI='yes'. This then will tell it to try to build a gui. It does require that the needed devel packages are present. Matplotlib can use several such as Tk, Qt, Gtk. Adam -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
