On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Tony S Yu <tsy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > Does it also happen with the QtAgg backend? Does the behavior change based on which backend you choose? That might help narrow down whether it is a problem with particular backends or with the backend interface.
Ben Root
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