[ase-users] matplotlib and ase-gui

[Jens Jørgen Mortensen]

Hi!

I've just made some changes to the development version of ASE (trunk in 
SVN).  Now ase-gui will pop up matplotlib plots in separate processes 
instead of the same process as ase-gui.  This allows matplotlib to use 
its preferred GUI-backend instead of being forced to use GTK which 
ase-gui is using.

It works on my computer, but maybe not on yours!  Please give it a try 
and let me know how it goes.

Something like this should do it:

     $ cd
     $ svn co https://svn.fysik.dtu.dk/projects/ase/trunk ase-trunk
     $ export PYTHONPATH=~/ase-trunk
     $ export PATH=~/ase-trunk/tools:$PATH
     $ ase-build H2 | ase-run emt -f 0.01
     $ ase-gui H2.traj

Jens Jørgen