Chapter 5. The PLplot X Driver Family

Table of Contents
The Xwin Driver
The GCW Driver
The Tk Driver

Drivers for use with the X-Windows system are described in this chapter. Each of the drivers has a list of options, and these may be set as outlined in the Section called Command Line Arguments in Chapter 3.

The Xwin Driver

The Xwin driver draws plots in an X-window using Xlib. The raster output is rather coarse, but renders very fast. The Xwin driver is excellent for quick-look plots, and is the reference driver for plplot. However, it should be noted that the Xwin driver is not unicode-enabled.

The Xwin driver displays plots one page at a time. The pager is advanced by pressing the Enter key.

The available driver options are: