On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Eric Emsellem <eemse...@eso.org> wrote:
> Hi > > I have one very nagging issue which I would like to solve with matplotlib > once > and for all: this may have to do with my desktop windown manager but I > couldn't > find much there, so any input is welcome. > > When I open a new figure, the figure ALWAYS comes BELOW my current xterm > (using > KDE 4.3) and ALWAYS in the wrong place (top left corner where I usually put > other windows). I would like some "smart" location for that figure so I > don't > have systematically to get it up and move it when I open a new figure. Is > this > linked to matplotlib? (this is the only application which is not managed > properly in this context). I am using ipython -pylab as a working context > (on > opensuse 11.2). > > thanks and cheers > > Eric > > Eric, One possibility for this behavior might be that you might be defaulting to a different backend than QT. I would imagine if matplotlib is defaulting to the GTKAgg backend or the Tk backend, then the figure window would not behave properly in the window manager. You can set a default backend value to Qt4Agg in your matplotlibrc file. Maybe that would work. Ben Root
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