xmaxima's default window geometry in Kubuntu Linux
Subject: xmaxima's default window geometry in Kubuntu Linux
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:39:27 -0600
On 8/7/06, jesse clark <jessclarkaustin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm having a problem with the default
> window geometry that xmaxima outputs to gnuplot. A
> circle comes out as an ellipse.
For some reason, Gnuplot does not enforce 1:1 aspect ratio by default.
Try putting
set_plot_option ([gnuplot_preamble, "set size ratio -1"]);
before any plot2d. That makes the aspect ratio pretty close to 1:1
(but not exactly so far as I can tell).
It seems like Maxima should just paste "set size ratio -1" into the
Gnuplot output. Have I forgotten why we don't want to do that?
HTH
Robert Dodier