matplotlib windows 10 old looking plot window

Question

I have python 2.7.14 on Win10, and installed matplotlib 2.1.2 via pip. I don't like the way the buttons and the whole plot window look like. How can I fix this. It should rather look like in 1 .

supposed to be plot window

my plot window

Answer 1

As of matplotlib version >= 2.0 using

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.gca()
plt.show()

you get this window now:

You can use the classic style ( plt.style.use("classic") ) to get the old figure style back:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.style.use("classic")
plt.gca()
plt.show()

The buttons however are now still different.

In order to change the buttons, you could locate the folder with the buttons,

<path to python>\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\images

and replace the images in it with the images of your choice. Eg you might want to download an older matplotlib version and take the images from there.