On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Ryan May <rma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > > 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. > > I can see the look of the widgets depending on the backend and current > desktop environment, but to a window manager, a window is a window. > They're all just X11 objects. The manager is just placing a box and > responding to minimize/maximze, etc. > > It doesn't hurt to check, I just would be *GREATLY* surprised if > anything changed due to the window manager. My money would be on some > hint that a particular backend is failing to give the WM. > > Ryan > > That is exactly what I am thinking now that we know that it happens even with the Qt4Agg backend. Should these hints be given by the objects in backend_bases (for a consistent behavior), or do they have to be done by the individual backends? Maybe the hints could be stored as rcParams for all backends to refer to?
Ben Root > -- > Ryan May > Graduate Research Assistant > School of Meteorology > University of Oklahoma >
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