Sorry for the vagueness in the title, I don't know how else to describe it. I am using gnuplot 5.4.5 on macOS Ventura 13.1. Whenever I try to plot something, wether a function or data from a file, the plot window containing the graph correctly appears, but the command line is littered with a bunch of text that I don't understand, like in the following example:
~ > gnuplot
G N U P L O T
Version 5.4 patchlevel 5 last modified 2022-09-28
Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 2004, 2007-2022
Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others
gnuplot home: http://www.gnuplot.info
faq, bugs, etc: type "help FAQ"
immediate help: type "help" (plot window: hit 'h')
Terminal type is now 'qt'
Options are '0 font "Arial,12"'
gnuplot> plot sin(x)
1 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada9c5c8 _ZN15MenuBarInstance22EnsureAutoShowObserverEv + 120
2 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada9c188 _ZN15MenuBarInstance14EnableAutoShowEv + 60
3 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada3f310 SetMenuBarObscured + 372
4 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada3eee8 _ZN13HIApplication15HandleActivatedEP14OpaqueEventRefhP15OpaqueWindowPtrh + 172
5 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada38fcc _ZN13HIApplication13EventObserverEjP14OpaqueEventRefPv + 296
6 HIToolbox 0x00000001ad9ffcd0 _NotifyEventLoopObservers + 176
7 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada3896c AcquireEventFromQueue + 432
8 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada27c84 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 320
9 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada27b2c _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 72
10 AppKit 0x00000001a75d4424 _DPSNextEvent + 632
11 AppKit 0x00000001a75d35b4 -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 728
12 AppKit 0x00000001a75c79e4 -[NSApplication run] + 464
13 libqcocoa.dylib 0x000000010403d7a4 qt_plugin_instance + 174652
14 QtCore 0x0000000101727f74 _ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE + 520
15 QtCore 0x000000010172c5cc _ZN16QCoreApplication4execEv + 132
16 gnuplot_qt 0x00000001000ceb70 main + 832
17 dyld 0x00000001a3f4be50 start + 2544
gnuplot> 1 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada2790c _ZN15MenuBarInstance22RemoveAutoShowObserverEv + 44
2 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada3f214 SetMenuBarObscured + 120
3 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada46390 _ZN13HIApplication11FrontUILostEv + 44
4 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada3f04c _ZN13HIApplication15HandleActivatedEP14OpaqueEventRefhP15OpaqueWindowPtrh + 528
5 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada38f70 _ZN13HIApplication13EventObserverEjP14OpaqueEventRefPv + 204
6 HIToolbox 0x00000001ad9ffcd0 _NotifyEventLoopObservers + 176
7 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada3896c AcquireEventFromQueue + 432
8 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada27c84 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 320
9 HIToolbox 0x00000001ada27b2c _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 72
10 AppKit 0x00000001a75d4424 _DPSNextEvent + 632
11 AppKit 0x00000001a75d35b4 -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 728
12 AppKit 0x00000001a75c79e4 -[NSApplication run] + 464
13 libqcocoa.dylib 0x000000010403d7a4 qt_plugin_instance + 174652
14 QtCore 0x0000000101727f74 _ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE + 520
15 QtCore 0x000000010172c5cc _ZN16QCoreApplication4execEv + 132
16 gnuplot_qt 0x00000001000ceb70 main + 832
17 dyld 0x00000001a3f4be50 start + 2544
gnuplot>
Like I said, the graph displays fine and I get no errors, but this makes using gnuplot messy and cumbersome. I also never encountered this problem when using gnuplot form Ubuntu. Any ideas as to what could be causing it?
I tried changing the default qt terminal font (sans), that also caused an error message when plotting something, to Aerial in the .zshrc file - this solved the font issue but the text still appears.
Edit: found partial fix
After I encountered the exact same problem while using matplotlib 's show function, I looked it up and found this question on Stack Overflow to which I refer for details. I confirm the workaround works for gnuplot as well.
