# Opening Plots in Juno in a new window like in Matlab

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/opening-plots-in-juno-in-a-new-window-like-in-matlab/13585>\
**Category:** Juno\
**Tags:** plotting\
**Created:** [August 16, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/opening-plots-in-juno-in-a-new-window-like-in-matlab/13585 "2018-08-16T20:06:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![OvidiusCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/73ab20/32.png) [@OvidiusCicero](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/OvidiusCicero)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/opening-plots-in-juno-in-a-new-window-like-in-matlab/13585/1 "2018-08-16T20:06:46Z")

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Is it possible to have Atom/Julia open plots not in the plot plan but in a new window as Matlab does?

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**Author:** ![Christopher\_Fisher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/christopher_fisher/32/26132_2.png) [@Christopher\_Fisher](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Christopher_Fisher)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/opening-plots-in-juno-in-a-new-window-like-in-matlab/13585/2 "2018-08-16T23:22:13Z")

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Yes. Use `gui()` after calling `plot()`. See [http://docs.junolab.org/latest/man/basic\_usage.html](http://docs.junolab.org/latest/man/basic_usage.html) for more information.

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**Author:** ![OvidiusCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/73ab20/32.png) [@OvidiusCicero](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/OvidiusCicero)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/opening-plots-in-juno-in-a-new-window-like-in-matlab/13585/3 "2018-08-17T11:14:28Z")

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This was what I also found. On my machine unfortunately, this only has exactly the same effect as `display(fig)`

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**Author:** ![Christopher\_Fisher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/christopher_fisher/32/26132_2.png) [@Christopher\_Fisher](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Christopher_Fisher)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 11:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/opening-plots-in-juno-in-a-new-window-like-in-matlab/13585/4 "2018-08-17T11:32:58Z")

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Strange. On my work machine` gui()` does not work and `display()` opens the plot in a pane in Atom as intended. So something is clearly off. This isn’t the first issue I encountered that is platform specific. Things will be wonky for a few weeks until the ecosystem stabilizes.