I'm trying to setup my remote working environment so that I can use matplotlib.pyplot under ipython. My local machine and remote machine are both MAC OSX Mavericks. I've tried xeyes and it works properly so I think my X11 forwarding works fine. However, when I try functions in matplotlib.pyplot it didn't show any error message but I didn't see any figure either.
I know it's about which backend to use and I've tried using ipython --pylab=tk but didn't work. Tried to install pygtk but can't manage to install a dependency py2cairo (seems to be an open issue). Any other thoughts? Thanks.
How did you "try functions in matplotlib.pyplot"?
The following works for me
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('tkagg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1, 2, 3])
plt.show()
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22599444/pyplot-while-using-x11-forwarding