Thread: [Matplotlib-users] os x backends

I've recently needed to use matplotlib remotely from a 'server' running OS 
X. The server does not have GTK on it, and the server's version of Tk is 
bound to Aqua instead of X11 and I therefore can't remotely spawn a 
matplotlib GUI window.

My question: Does anyone know of an *easy* way to get a backend running 
that will allow me to push windows through ssh X11 forwarding? I don't 
have administrative access on the server, so I'm trying to find the 
simplest solution possible for the administrator to implement--presumably 
this rules out GTK....

Thanks!
Matt

Matthew Auger wrote:
> I've recently needed to use matplotlib remotely from a 'server' running OS 
> X. The server does not have GTK on it, and the server's version of Tk is 
> bound to Aqua instead of X11 and I therefore can't remotely spawn a 
> matplotlib GUI window.
>
> My question: Does anyone know of an *easy* way to get a backend running 
> that will allow me to push windows through ssh X11 forwarding? I don't 
> have administrative access on the server, so I'm trying to find the 
> simplest solution possible for the administrator to implement--presumably 
> this rules out GTK....
>
> Thanks!
> Matt
>
> -

Matt: Depends on your definition of 'easy' ...

The fink matplotlib package uses GTKAgg as the default backend, and 
works fine over an ssh tunnel.  The admin will have to:

0) make sure X11.app (and the X11 SDK) is installed.
1) install fink
2) run 'fink selfupdate'
3) run 'fink install matplotlib-py25' (and wait a few hours for 
everything to compile).

HTH,

-Jeff

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On 31.05.2007, at 20:34, Jeff Whitaker wrote:

> The fink matplotlib package uses GTKAgg as the default backend, and
> works fine over an ssh tunnel.  The admin will have to:
>
> 0) make sure X11.app (and the X11 SDK) is installed.
> 1) install fink
> 2) run 'fink selfupdate'
> 3) run 'fink install matplotlib-py25' (and wait a few hours for
> everything to compile).

Same holds for MacPorts -- it has matplotlib in variants tk, gtk2, =20
and wxPython.

I guess in your case you would need to convince yur Admin to install =20
MacPorts, or install as a normal user, which might work -- that would =20=

then include gtk2 or wxWidgets as necessary.

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Jochen
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I think we want to keep matplotlib associated with the OS X Framework 
install of python; if we installed the macports version, am I correct in 
assuming that we could just dump the resulting python modules (eg. gtk, 
tkinter, and matplotlib) into the Framework install's site-packages dir 
(or more likely my own PYTHONPATH dir) and disregard the macports distro 
of python?



On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Jochen Küpper wrote:

> On 31.05.2007, at 20:34, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>
>> The fink matplotlib package uses GTKAgg as the default backend, and
>> works fine over an ssh tunnel.  The admin will have to:
>> 
>> 0) make sure X11.app (and the X11 SDK) is installed.
>> 1) install fink
>> 2) run 'fink selfupdate'
>> 3) run 'fink install matplotlib-py25' (and wait a few hours for
>> everything to compile).
>
> Same holds for MacPorts -- it has matplotlib in variants tk, gtk2, and 
> wxPython.
>
> I guess in your case you would need to convince yur Admin to install 
> MacPorts, or install as a normal user, which might work -- that would then 
> include gtk2 or wxWidgets as necessary.
>
> Greetings,
> Jochen
>