Octave: zoom in x11

By yangyanghu at Sat, Jul 24 2010 8:43am |

How do I zoom in on a portion of a plot in X11 on a macbook pro? Gnuplot help tells me to use button 2 for scaling, but button 2 on the mac is either ctrl-click or two finger click. I can't make any graph interactions using two fingers, and ctrl-click simply rotates the graph axes.

How do I zoom with my trackpad?

Thanks!

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Mon, 2010-07-26 01:56 — pierredebuyl

It works with ctrl-click on

It works with ctrl-click on my machine, under Tiger.

Did you choose "Emulate three buttons mouse" in the preferences ?

Mon, 2010-07-26 02:30 — drc

Just to make it clear, you

Just to make it clear, you do this from the X11 application preferences.

Mon, 2010-07-26 16:39 — yangyanghu

I did, but ctrl-click in 3D

I did, but ctrl-click in 3D only rotates plot axes. The closest I get to a zoom option is using alt-click and horizontal stroke. This, however, does not select a subset to zoom in on, but rather blows up the plot from its origin. Is this what the zoom function is like?

Besides, alt-click has no zooming effect in 2D plots, and ctrl-click in 2D has no effect whatsoever.

This is all in Snow Leopard for me, plotting with XQuartz 2.5.2.