Monthly Archives: April 2007

Install gnuplot on Ubuntu

I once again updated these instructions for Gnuplot 4.4.0 RC1 and newer Ubuntu versions. Find these instructions in this post.

There is an updated Howto for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon available.

Though there is gnuplot available in the Ubuntu/Debian repositories, there are reasons to compile gnuplot – first and most important gnu readline support! I don’t know why Debian maintainers don’t compile the GNU readline support into GNUplot – it’s some license issues – but it’s like that and this makes gnuplot practically unusable. Second having the pdf and wxWidgets terminal is not that bad at all 🙂

So here are the instructions: Continue reading Install gnuplot on Ubuntu

Workaround for ‘Black Window Bug’ using Beryl on Kubuntu

I recently installed Beryl on my Kubuntu Feisty Fawn distribution and I run into two problems:

1) The window decorations were missing – here you need to add the line
Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “true”
to Section “Screen”.

2) My windows were all black and this is a bug in the NVidia driver which doesn’t seem to be fixed soon or at all – the problem is, that if you have a card with not much memory, like my NVidia Go 6200, windows content gets black since there is no memory available. There is a lengthy discussion about that here.
An easy fix for this problem is, right click on the red diamond (Beryl manager) in the system tray and choose “Advanced Beryl Options->Rendering Path->Copy”. This should have an effect on the performance but at least it works :). Thanks Nil.

More info can be found at these links:
An automatic easy solution for nearly (all) problems
Opening too many windows leaves some of them black