I had the same problem on my Mac. If I start x11/aquaterm seperately by hand (not using commands) it works fine (on my terminal)
Jan
Am 15.01.2013 um 02:14 schrieb Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.hansen at gmail.com>:
> On 1/14/13 7:48 AM, Jaime Villate wrote:
>> On 01/14/2013 02:16 PM, Herbert wrote:
>>> I am user of wxMaxima since a lot of years, in a Linux (Ubuntu)
>>> system. In that system, I have no problems with plotting or drawing
>>> functions.
>>> Now, I use an iMac, too, with system 10.8.2, where I have wxMaxima
>>> 12.08.0 and Maxima 5.28.0 installed.
>>> When I try to use the plot or draw command, no drawings appear,
>>> wxMaxima simply 'hangs', no errors are reported on the screen.
>>> Plotting functions only with Gnuplot (version 4.6.1 is installed)
>>> works well in both, x11 and AquaTerm.
>>> Have you any idea how to 'convince' the system to plot or draw
>>> directly from wxMaxima?
>>> With my best regards,
>>> H. Ballmann
>> Hi,
>> please try this command:
>>
>> plot2d(x^2,[x,0,2],[plot_format,gnuplot]);
>>
>> even if wxMaxima hangs, there is a chance that the file maxout.gnuplot
>> is created; please try to find that file and tell us the first few lines
>> which should be something like this:
>>
>> set term pop
>> set xlabel "x"
>> set ylabel "x^2"
>> set xrange [0. : 2. ]
>> set zeroaxis
>> set datafile missing "NaN"
>> plot [0. :2. ] '-' notitle with lines lt 3
>>
>> You can also enter gnuplot and then issue the command:
>>
>> load "path_to_file_maxout.gnuplot_in_you_system"
>>
>> which should produce the plot.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jaime
>
> I don't reproduce this error with wxMaxima-12.09.0 and Maxima-5.29.1
> installed through Fink on OS X 10.8.2--I am able to plot in the
> gnuplot/aquaterm, openmath, and inline graphic formats.
>
> Have you tried the other plot modes? If those work then it's likely
> that there is something unhappy in your gnuplot configuration.
>
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