On Aug 20, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > 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
I've had the same issue as Eric using Qt4Agg as the backend (and with all other backends I've used). As Eric mentioned, I have this windowing issue with ipython -pylab, but this issue also arises when running scripts from the command line and from my text editor (i.e. it's not ipython specific). -Tony
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