On Aug 20, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > > 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
A couple of corrections: 1) I wasn't clear earlier: I was agreeing with Eric on the fact that the plot window appeared below other windows. The location (e.g. top-left corner) depends on the backend I use. 2) I was wrong that all backends show up below the terminal window: the MacOSX backend creates plots above other windows (unfortunately, I can't test QtAgg; only macosx, qt4agg, and tkagg). -Tony
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