Command-line_options

In addition to the X Toolkit options, the following options may be specified on the command line when starting gnuplot or as resources in your ".Xdefaults" file:

`-mono`	forces monochrome rendering on color displays.
`-gray`	requests grayscale rendering on grayscale or color displays.
	(Grayscale displays receive monochrome rendering by default.)
`-clear`	requests that the window be cleared momentarily before a
	new plot is displayed.
`-raise`	raises plot window after each plot.
`-noraise`	does not raise plot window after each plot.
`-persist`	plots windows survive after main gnuplot program exits.

The options are shown above in their command-line syntax. When entered as resources in ".Xdefaults", they require a different syntax.

Example:

         gnuplot*gray: on

gnuplot also provides a command line option (-pointsize 4#4v5#5) and a resource, gnuplot*pointsize: 4#4v5#5, to control the size of points plotted with the points plotting style. The value v is a real number (greater than 0 and less than or equal to ten) used as a scaling factor for point sizes. For example, -pointsize 2 uses points twice the default size, and -pointsize 0.5 uses points half the normal size.