# Issues with plotting more than once in REPL

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-plotting-more-than-once-in-repl/9022>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** plotting\
**Created:** [February 12, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-plotting-more-than-once-in-repl/9022 "2018-02-12T20:59:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![gideonsimpson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gideonsimpson/32/1928_2.png) [@gideonsimpson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gideonsimpson)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-plotting-more-than-once-in-repl/9022/1 "2018-02-12T20:59:33Z")

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I’m finding that if I launch Julia 0.6.2 at the terminal and then calling  
`using Plots`  
if I then plot something simple, on my Mac OS machine, a GKSTerm launches, and I see my figure. Now, If then close that figure and try to plot something else, nothing ever appears. I think I have all the default graphics settings.

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-plotting-more-than-once-in-repl/9022/2 "2018-02-13T00:10:27Z")

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I think that would be the GR backend. If I remember correctly, it is the default and it does not handle closing the plotting window.

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**Author:** ![jheinen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jheinen/32/2787_2.png) [@jheinen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jheinen)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 9:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-plotting-more-than-once-in-repl/9022/3 "2018-02-13T09:06:46Z")

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Are you on GR master? This problem should be fixed …

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**Author:** ![gideonsimpson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gideonsimpson/32/1928_2.png) [@gideonsimpson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gideonsimpson)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-plotting-more-than-once-in-repl/9022/4 "2018-02-13T12:50:39Z")

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The problem indeed goes away if I use pyplot as my backend.