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Merge Enable UTF-8 text support for Gnuplot's x11 terminal.
(describe how to enable linestyle support for Gnpulot's x11 terminal.)
 
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When using the X11 server's default settings, Gnuplot's X11 terminal does not support different linestyles.  Thus, all line plots have solid line types, independent of the "linestyle" specified.
== Enable "linestyle" functionality for Gnuplot's x11 terminal ==
To enable support for the various linestyles, add the lines below to your {{Codeline|~/.Xdefaults}}.


<code>
When using the X11 server's default settings, Gnuplot's X11 terminal does not support different linestyles.  Thus, all line plots have solid line types, independent of the <code>"linestyle"</code> specified.
! gnuplot settings
To enable support for the various linestyles, add the lines below to your {{Path|~/.Xdefaults}}.
gnuplot*dashed: on
 
gnuplot*borderDashes:  0
  ! gnuplot settings
gnuplot*axisDashes:    16
  gnuplot*dashed: on
gnuplot*line1Dashes:    0
  gnuplot*borderDashes:  0
gnuplot*line2Dashes:  42
  gnuplot*axisDashes:    16
gnuplot*line3Dashes:  13
  gnuplot*line1Dashes:    0
gnuplot*line4Dashes:  44
  gnuplot*line2Dashes:  42
gnuplot*line5Dashes:  15
  gnuplot*line3Dashes:  13
gnuplot*line6Dashes: 4441
  gnuplot*line4Dashes:  44
gnuplot*line7Dashes:  42
  gnuplot*line5Dashes:  15
gnuplot*line8Dashes:  13
  gnuplot*line6Dashes: 4441
</code>
  gnuplot*line7Dashes:  42
  gnuplot*line8Dashes:  13
 
To enable these settings, type the following command at the shell prompt.
 
  xrdb -merge .Xdefaults
 
To avoid having to type this command repeatedly, the command may be placed in your shell script resource file {{Path|~/.profile}} for example.
 
 
== Enable UTF-8 text support for Gnuplot's x11 terminal ==
 
By default, Gnuplot's X11 terminal does not support UTF-8 characters when displaying text labels or setting plot titles.
To enable support for UTF-8, add the lines below to your {{Path|~/.Xdefaults}}.
 
  ! gnuplot settings
  gnuplot*font: mbfont:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-100-100-*-*-iso10646-*
  gnuplot*encoding: utf-8


To enable these settings, type the following command at the shell prompt.
To enable these settings, type the following command at the shell prompt.


<code>
  xrdb -merge .Xdefaults
xrdb -merge .Xdefaults
 
</code>
To avoid having to type this command repeatedly, the command may be placed in your shell script resource file, {{Path|~/.profile}} for example.


To avoid having to type this command repeatedly, the command may be placed in your shell script resource file, {{Codeline|~/.profile}} for example.
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