ran into this bug in the course of debugging a gnuplot'ism and thought
it would be relevant to add...
|| I do not see this "-geometry" option documented. No information in
|| manpage. I am planning to close the bug if no other comments will be added.
granted the above may have been correct at the time of writing,
currently:
|||
Gnuplot provides the x11 terminal type for use with X servers.
This terminal type is set automatically at startup if the DISPLAY environment
variable is set, if the TERM environment variable is set to xterm, or if
the -display command line option is used. For terminal type x11, gnuplot
accepts the standard X Toolkit options and resources such as geometry,
font, and background. See the X(1) man page for a description of
the options. In addition to the X Toolkit options:
|||
broken:
$ export TERM=xterm #default but explicit
$ gnuplot -geometry 1024x960+0+0 -p test.gnuplot
workaround:
$ gnuplot -geometry 1024x960+0+0 -display :0.0 -p test.gnuplot
so the code handling TERM=xterm is not working as advertised.
also, -geometry is a standard XtOpenApplication() parsed argument since
forever in R6, performing an Xrm merge. See:
http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/man/man3/XtAppInitialize.3.xhtml
http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/man/man3/XtDisplayInitialize.3.xhtml
http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/libX11/libX11/libX11.html#Parsing_Command_Line_Options
the fact that gnuplot is parsing Xt options but not using them unless
display is specified is misleading, in addition to ignoring TERM.
just food for thought
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