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Xmaxima is a graphical interface for Maxima, written in Tcl/Tk. It also provides the xmaxima plotting program for Maxima (formerly called ’openmath’), which can do some of the plots done by Maxima’s default plotter (gnuplot) and a few more that gnuplot cannot do.

This manual was written for Xmaxima - the screenshots are from the Linux version of Maxima 5.43.2. Some familiarity with Maxima is assumed. There is a separate reference manual for Maxima, which can be browsed and studied from Xmaxima.

1 Command-line options

The executable program, xmaxima, accepts the following command-line options:

--help
-h: Displays a brief usage summary.
--url site: Start Xmaxima’s browser with the page at the URL ‘site’
--use-version ver
-u ver: Launch version ‘ver’ of Maxima.
--lisp flavor
-l flavor: Use the lisp implementation ‘flavor’ of Maxima.
--lisp-options lisp-options
-X lisp-options: Options to be given to the underlying Lisp. Option lines containing spaces have to be quoted to be passed to the lisp as a whole.

1 Command-line options
2 Xmaxima Window
3 Entering commands
4 Session control
5 Xmaxima plots
6 The browser
7 Getting Help
Concept Index

Xmaxima Manual

1 Command-line options