Personally I prefer python over Octave/Matlab. But since I’m being forced to write Matlab code for one of my course, I started playing around with octave.
By default octave makes ugly ugly plots because it uses the X11 terminal. But there’s a solution, you can switch to wxt terminal. In order to do that, add in the bottom of your .bashrc the following line:
export GNUTERM=wxt
And a magic will happen:
Before:
UGLY !!!
After:
NICE !!!
That’s all folks.