Am 9 Jun 2006 um 11:48 hat Albert Reiner geschrieben:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:19:41AM +0200, van Nek wrote:
>
> > (on Windows) there could be only two different sorts of gnuplot
> > terminals (I do not regard 'dumb' as a serious terminal).
> > 1. [gnuplot_term,windows] which is the default
> > 2. [gnuplot_term,file] which includes ps, png, latex and all others
>
> I do not care what happens on Windows, but my maxima-init.mac has
>
> set_plot_option([gnuplot_term, dumb ]) $
>
> on all my Linux accounts. There are actually people who prefer not to
> deal with graphical user interfaces and work in text mode only
> (although they are a dwindling minority, I suppose). In fact, I only
> started using plot2d after learning about the "dumb" terminal in this
> thread.
>
> So, whatever happens, please do not take it away!
>
> Albert.
Hi Albert,
good to know! I did not expect that.
So if 'dumb' is needed, one has to find out, why terminal 'dumb' doesn't work in Windows.
>
> P.S.: plot2d always leaves a file ~/maxout.gnuplot in my home
> directory. Is there any way of having it go to /tmp instead?
> (My installation is not very current, and I am in the process of
> moving, so if this is already fixed in a newer version, please
> ignore.)
There is an environment variable on Lisp-level which controls the directory for
maxout.gnuplot.
*maxima-tempdir*
Type in
:lisp *maxima-tempdir*
and you see where maxout.gnuplot is left at the moment.
If you want to change that, put a line
(setf *maxima-tempdir* "mydir")
into the init file 'maxima-init.lisp'
(hope that works on Linux too).
Volker