Updated: gnuplot-6.0.4-1

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Sun Feb 15 21:54:21 GMT 2026


Am 11.01.2026 um 18:25 schrieb ASSI via Cygwin-announce:
> Gnuplot version 6.0.4 is available on Cygwin.  The upstream release
> notes for this bugfix / minor feature enhancement release are available
> at:
>
> http://www.gnuplot.info/ReleaseNotes_6_0_4.html
>
>
> ...
Some update of gnuplot changed the way Sixel graphics are produced on 
the "sixel" terminal (e.g. mintty):
- An explicit cursor home sequence is injected before the actual Sixel 
output, so the graphics are always placed in the top-left corner rather 
than inline at the cursor position which is much more useful.
- The graphics pixel size is constant, not adapted to the terminal size.
- The graphics background is forced to white; it used to be possible to 
generate transparent output on the terminal background.
- The font has changed.
See the screenshot on Mintty — Cygwin Terminal emulator 
<https://mintty.github.io/> to compare, made 5 years ago.
Are these upstream changes or patches in the cygwin package?
Is there any way to configure the mentioned aspects?
Thomas


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