specify geometry of a new gnuplot window in lxde

Question

I have a script that runs a calculation and then plots the result using gnuplot script file. The problem is that I need to make more than one plot and I don't want windows to cover each other. I tried this:

time ./run nano.lua
killall gnuplot
gnuplot -geometry -100-100 -p -e 'load "pqpss.plt"'
gnuplot -p -e 'load "pqpsss.plt"'

turns out that the -geometry option doesn't do anything. I'm tunning lxde with ubuntu 11.10.

Answer 1

Seems this might be a known bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=599129

Workaround suggest explicitly adding -display :0.0 (substituting your display as necessary):

$ gunuplot -geometry -100-100 -display :0.0 -p -e 'locat "pqpss.plt"'