Re: Figure Position

[Kristen Richter]

On Thursday, August 13, 2009, at 11:57AM, "Kristen Richter" <address@hidden> 
wrote:

>I have upgraded from 3.2.0 to octave 3.2.2 and am running gnuplot-x11 4.5.4-6 
>in ubuntu.
>
>However, even after trying the example below, I'm having the same sort of 
>problem, where new figures appear just below my command window, to the side of 
>my command window, to the side and bottom of my command window, and then tiled 
>with my command window, no matter what numbers I put in the [left bottom width 
>height] matrix for 'Position'. (See example below)
>
>octave:2> figure(1,"position",[5,5,400,400])
>octave:3> figure(2,"position",[5,5,400,400])
>octave:4> figure(3,"position",[5,5,400,400])
>octave:5> figure(4,"position",[5,5,400,400])
>octave:6> get(figure(1),'Position')
>ans =
>
>     5     5   400   400
>
>octave:7> get(figure(2),'Position')
>ans =
>
>     5     5   400   400
>
>octave:8> get(figure(3),'Position')
>ans =
>
>     5     5   400   400
>
>octave:9> get(figure(4),'Position')
>ans =
>
>     5     5   400   400
>
>
>While querying 'Position' with the get command returns the input I gave, this 
>is obviously not occurring.
>
>Has anyone else come across this issue? Have I changed some global variable in 
>octave? Why would uninstalling and reinstalling octave not have restored 
>global defaults? What else could be overriding my 'Position' inputs?
>
>Any help on this issue would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Kristen

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Hi Kristen,

What happens when you try the commands below?

close all
figure (1, "position", [5, 5, 400, 400])

Also, "gnuplot-x11 4.5.4-6" doesn't look correct. I have a recent copy of the 
developers sources. The version for the developers sources is only 4.3.

You can check the version number of your installed gnuplot from Octave by 
typing "__gnuplot_version__". Or by typing "gnuplot --version" at a shell 
prompt.

Ben

p.s. Please respond at below, so that those coming later can read along.
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Hi Ben,

I rechecked my version of gnuplot... It is 4.2.4.. I just read it from the 
Synaptic Package Manager too fast and jumbled the numbers up.

'close all' closes all the figures as expected.
Typing in the second command brings up a landscape window at the very top of 
the screen.

'figure(2,'Position',[5 5 400 400])' then brings up a second figure window 
placed just below the bottom of the first figure window, and then further 
figures auto-tile between these two spaces.

Earlier, I observed 4X4 tiling behavior, and I notice that during my work 
today, I've stacked the right side of my screen with projects that I'm working 
on. When I close out some of these windows, tiling resumes in a 4X4 manner, 
filling in the empty space with figures. Since the figures seem to be drawn to 
unoccupied space, I'm now wondering if opening figure positions are being 
controlled by my operating system? Anyone else running ubuntu and having 
problems with figure positions?

-Kristen