<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Kaitlin,</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately we have yet to implement an interactive window to show() a plot from the command line. It's something I'd like to see - if there are any enterprising yt devs with some knowledge of matplotlib out there, I think adding such a capability would be a nice mini-project.</div><div><br></div><div>show() will work inside of an ipython notebook, so for now you can try doing it that way.</div><div><br></div><div>There's a little bit of detail about the notebook in the docs: <a href="http://yt-project.org/doc/interacting/ipython_notebook.html">http://yt-project.org/doc/interacting/ipython_notebook.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Nathan</div><br><div><div>On Oct 18, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Kaitlin Kratter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">Hi all,</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">Very simple question. I have yt running on a mac with 10.8, which means it uses xquartz, not x11. When I open up ipython, I can make plots as usual using matplotlib, however if I try to make a slice plot with yt (or a line plot):</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">$ slc = SlicePlot(pf,'z','density')</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">$ slc.show()</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">Nothing happens. Save works. Is there some display setting I can change?</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">Thanks,</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><span style="font-family: monospace; ">Kaitlin</span><br style="font-family: monospace; "><br style="font-family: monospace; "><div><div><br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>yt-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:yt-users@lists.spacepope.org">yt-users@lists.spacepope.org</a><br>http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-users-spacepope.org<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>