NAME
pgxwin_server - X-window sever for pgplot plotting subroutine library
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the pgxwin_server command. This
manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because
the original program does not have a manual page.
pgplot is a large collection of plotting routines callable from C, as
well as FORTRAN (also perl, see below). Many drivers are included to
render the plots on devices. To use PGPLOT, you must set the
environment variable, PGPLOT_DIR to "/usr/lib/pgplot". That is ,
under csh, type setenv PGPLOT_DIR /usr/lib/pgplot . Under bash, type
PGPLOT_DIR="/usr/lib/pgplot";export PGPLOT_DIR;
The default device to be used for the plots can be specified by the
PGPLOT_DEV environment variable.
pgxwin_server is the sever program for the /xwindow and /xserve devices
for pgplot. pgxwin_server is automatically started by the /xw and /xs
driver when first called upon. pgxwin_server then continues to serve
windows to subsequent PGPLOT programs and remains running indefinitely.
In order that it be possible to kill the server, an icon window for it
is displayed. Window managers generally provide a way to interactively
kill windows, and if this is applied to the server window, then the
server will close any inactive /xserve windows, and if no active /xw or
/xs windows remain, then the server will shut itself down cleanly. Note
that inactive windows are distinguishable from active windows by the
appearance of a skull-and-crossbones cursor.
If your default display is correctly set then simply typing:
pgxwin_server
with no arguments should start the server, and the server icon should
appear on the display. If an alternate display is desired then the
default display can be overridden with the -display argument. Other
options to override selected X resources from the command-line are also
available. To see them type:
pgxwin_server -help
SEE ALSO
Documentation on the library can be found in the directory,
/usr/doc/pgplot . There exists a perl interface to pgplot, pgperl,
also available for Debian. Extensive documentation can be found at
http://astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Gopal Narayanan <gopal@debian.org> for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Apr 18 2001