GNUPLOT：wxt和Windows终端有什么区别？

Question

What is difference between wxt and windows terminal?

Are they both supported in Linux, Windows, and Mac?

Are there any other good terminals for displaying plots?

Answer 1

The wxt terminal uses the wxWidgets library, where the 'wxt' comes from. The actual drawing is done via cairo, a 2D graphics library, and pango, a library for laying out and rendering text (see help wxt ). This terminal should work on all three OS.

windows uses the Windows GDI to draw and write text. This is available only for Windows.

Other interactive terminals are

• X11 : requires an XServer. Works on Linux, Mac and Windows (with cygwin?)
• aqua : this is for Mac only, but I don't know the current status of the terminal (working or not)
• qt : The qt terminal is strongly beeing improved for the upcoming 5.0 version. Outstanding feature (in the development version) are an export function to export the current plot as pdf, svg or raster image without replotting, and a QtWidget which allows embedding gnuplot into Qt applications.

Which terminal is "good" depends on your requirements (speed, features, dependencies, OS, etc.)