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Asked: 2026-06-15T18:07:27+00:00

I’ve installed Octave and gnuplot via Homebrew, and downloaded AquaTerm.dmg. When I try to

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I’ve installed Octave and gnuplot via Homebrew, and downloaded AquaTerm.dmg.
When I try to plot, I get the following message:

octave:4> plot(x,y)

gnuplot> set terminal aqua enhanced title "Figure 1" font "*,6"

                  ^
     `line 0: unknown or ambiguous terminal type; type just 'set terminal' for a list`

In a bash terminal set terminal, set Terminal, set term, (and the same, followed by “aqua” too) etc gives nothing.
I’ve tried plotting again from octave having the “AquaTerm” already open, but nothing. I’ve tried plotting directly from gnuplot but same problem.. How can I do this “set terminal aqua”?

Gnuplot starting message says “Terminal type set to 'x11'” but no idea how to change it, the previous commands didn’t work neither.

Since AquaTerm wasn’t installed from Homebrew maybe octave/gnupot can’t find it… but no idea.
Any guess? Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I found a way to generate the plots with octave, although is not using AquaTerm but x11. The problem was that Octave was “forcing” gnuplot to use aquaterm to plot. Instead of installing and integrating aquaterm into gnuplot, in octave typed: setenv GNUTERM x11. With this, plots are generated with x11 which is already in the terminal list of gnuplot (set terminal). I know it’s a patch, but finally I don’t mind aquaterm or x11, I just want plots to be generated

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