AquaTerm

AquaTerm allows you to plot things in OS X without using an X client, such as X11. This has two advantages:

• It requires less memory and hard drive space, if you don't have X installed or running already.
• The graphs look better, and can be saved as Quartz PDFs.

Aquaterm can be obtained as .dmg from the following URL:

• http://aquaterm.sourceforge.net/

As always, drag and drop it into your applications folder. If you installed Octave as a .dmg, plots will work with X11 automatically unless you change your environmental variables. For most users, adding

export GNUTERM='aqua'

in ~/.profile will solve the problem.

Open a new terminal to refresh your environmental variables. Plotting with Octave (and/or Gnuplot) should display in Aquaterm now.