Inconsistent Figure size when using Plots and gr()

loki · June 7, 2021, 4:25am

Hello,

Recently I’ve been running into an issue regarding the size of a figure being inconsistent when I use Plots.jl and gr() as the back-end. Essentially the issues is that when I try to plot anything it appears very small in the plot plane, I can change the size of it by passing in size = (…,…) but now the font and axes will be incredibly small. In addition, moving around the plot plane doesn’t affect the relative size of the plot which it normally would. However, if I plot the exact same thing using plotly() the figure size will appear normal. Thinking that I may have change some setting, I’ve tried exiting the REPL and loading in just Plots.jl, some times this fixes the issue but it doesn’t seem to be consistent.

If any one has any recommendations on how to address this issue or suggestions on how to work around this without switching back-ends. It would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

gustaphe · June 7, 2021, 5:57am

Is it this?

github.com/jheinen/GR.jl

[BUG] QtTerm non-square window size

opened 04:19PM - 07 Apr 21 UTC

closed 02:23PM - 27 Apr 22 UTC

gustaphe

I don't know if this is specific to my system (i3wm on Arch linux). No matter… the dimensions of the plot, GR reserves a square area for it in the window. This means that if the window is resized the figure is sometimes needlessly scaled down. This figure, for instance, could easily fill the window better but since it's trying to fit a square viewport it leaves a lot of empty space: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6677110/113898623-53cd0600-97cc-11eb-98b5-3f7352c35fc4.png) Here's the same problem for a call `using Plots;gr();plot(randn(10,10); title="hi", size=(300,600))`: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6677110/113899062-b7573380-97cc-11eb-9df0-f135be09a5d9.png) Is this a limitation in QtTerm, a bug or a specific issue with i3?

jheinen · June 7, 2021, 6:48am

You are probably using an old GR.jl version or GR run-time.

Plots.GR.version() should be 0.57.3
The GR.jl version should be v0.57.5 (check with ] st GR)

loki · June 7, 2021, 3:02pm

Thank you for the suggestion! I was indeed running an older version of GR.jl specifically version v0.52.0. I’ve updated it to v0.57.5 with ] update GR and that took care of the issue!