[vox-tech] tell gnuplot to use a single X11 window

[Dylan Beaudette]

Hi everyone,

is there any good way to get gnuplot to send its output to a single window, 
such that any successive plots update an existing X11 window?

i have looked over the gnuplot man page, and can't seem to find what i am 
looking for.

while it is a little ridiculous, i like to keep track of my progress while 
writting with this little script:

while `true`; do wc -w main.tex | awk '{print $1}' >> word_count ;\
echo "set ylab 'words'; set xlab 'minutes'; \
plot 'word_count' with lines notitle" | gnuplot -persist;\
sleep 60; done

this produces a nice little graph updated once a minute. however, gnuplot on 
linux produces a new window with every plot. on OSX it is possible to keep 
all output in a single window* .

* there is a bit of a difference on OSX, as an application called AquaTerm is 
being used to render the output, not X11.

any ideas on how to do this with regular X11?

thanks!


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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341