Can I choose display software?

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It can be done by overriding this function like so:

using Compose, Gadfly

function Gadfly.display(d::Gadfly.GadflyDisplay, p::Union{Plot,Compose.Context})
    display(d, Gadfly.default_mime(), p)
    return
end

Then a test:

set_default_plot_format(:svg)
plot(x=1:10, y=rand(10), Geom.point)

import Cairo
set_default_plot_format(:pdf)
plot(x=1:10, y=rand(10), Geom.point)

The plot will open in whatever your default program for svg, pdf is.

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