Comment 2 for bug 225169

Hi,

I'm a gnuplot developer, and I can tell you how to fix this bug. Thanks for reporting this, and I can confirm this behaviour on my machine too.
In fact, this bug comes from wxWidgets 2.6 (at least 2.6.3, the one gnuplot is linked to in ubuntu 8.04). It has already been reported to us quite a long time ago, and the reporter found that using 2.8 was enough to fix the problem [1].

I see that wxGTK 2.8.7 is available in ubuntu 8.04, so I would suggest building and linking gnuplot against it. On my machine, it solves the issue.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1575751&group_id=2055&atid=102055