""" =============== pyplot with GTK =============== An example of how to use pyplot to manage your figure windows, but modify the GUI by accessing the underlying GTK widgets. """ import matplotlib matplotlib.use('GTK3Agg') # or 'GTK3Cairo' import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import gi gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0') from gi.repository import Gtk fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.plot([1, 2, 3], 'ro-', label='easy as 1 2 3') ax.plot([1, 4, 9], 'gs--', label='easy as 1 2 3 squared') ax.legend() manager = fig.canvas.manager # you can access the window or vbox attributes this way toolbar = manager.toolbar vbox = manager.vbox # now let's add a button to the toolbar button = Gtk.Button(label='Click me') button.show() button.connect('clicked', lambda button: print('hi mom')) toolitem = Gtk.ToolItem() toolitem.show() toolitem.set_tooltip_text('Click me for fun and profit') toolitem.add(button) pos = 8 # where to insert this in the toolbar toolbar.insert(toolitem, pos) # now let's add a widget to the vbox label = Gtk.Label() label.set_markup('Drag mouse over axes for position') label.show() vbox.pack_start(label, False, False, 0) vbox.reorder_child(toolbar, -1) def update(event): if event.xdata is None: label.set_markup('Drag mouse over axes for position') else: label.set_markup( f'x,y=({event.xdata}, {event.ydata})') fig.canvas.mpl_connect('motion_notify_event', update) plt.show()