From: Greg Heilers on
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:25:27 -0600, geep wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:30:00 +0100, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
>
>> Greg Heilers <gheilersNOSPAM(a)NOSPAMearthlink.net> wrote:
>>> gnuplot> set term wxt
>>> ^
>>> unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal'
>>> for
>>
>>> I do not seem to have that option, as there is no "wxt" type listed:
>>
>>> I *do* have wxWidgets installed, but do not know if that matters or
>>> not.
>>
>> What does matter is probably if wxWidgets was installed at compile
>> time, and most of all if gnuplot was configured to include that feature
>> during compile time. As wxWidgets is not part of the standard Slackware
>> installation it is a rather safe bet to say that gnuplot included with
>> Slackware was compiled without support for wxWidgets.
>>
>> So I guess that if you want wxWidgets support in gnuplot you do not
>> only have to install wxWidgets but also recompile gnuplot.
>>
>> regards Henrik
> Absolutely.
> I adapted Slackware's gnuplot.SlackBuild and it works fine with
> wxWidgets.
>
> --enable-wxwidgets \
> is needed for ./configure.
>
> If wxGTK is installed in a strange place you might also need
> --with-wx-config="/wherever_you_put_it/wxGTKx.x.x/bin" \ This is the
> directory where wx-config lives.
>
> I use gnuplot 4.4rc1 with wxGTK2.8.4. Also with wxMaxima, which is great
> friend of gnuplot. Cheers,
> Peter

Thanks everyone. I recompiled the source package. I also
needed to have "libmspack" installed, as well. But, it all
works now, with the wxt terminal.