True, we fixed this in SPD because it is a problem there, however, I also have this problem with Sage. I download Sage, install it, and it doesn't work (because I have a .matplotlib/matplotlibrc file).
I will look around for previous posts on this though. Brian On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg....@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Currently: >> >> IF a user has matplotlib installed outside of Sage >> AND they have a matplotlibrc file in ~/.matplotlib >> >> THEN Sage will use the non-Sage version in ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc. >> If a user has set a frontend (such as WxAgg or any other GUI >> frontend) that Sage doesn't have (most of them), matplotlib won't run >> in the notebook. >> >> A simple fix is posted here. The basic idea is that Sage should ship >> its own matplotlibrc files, install it in .sage/matplotlib and set the >> MPLCONFIGDIR variable to point to .sage/matplotlib >> >> http://github.com/ellisonbg/spd/commit/788532177e9e27bdd33a81e7aabab888b182c3db > > I think this was discussed on sage-devel before and maybe it was > decided not to ship Sage specific matplotlib rc? > > For me personally, it's essential that things work in the notebook out > of the box, so we just fixed that in SPD. > > Ondrej > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---