“UserWarning: Matplotlib is currently using agg, which is a non-GUI backend, so cannot show the figure.” when plotting figure with pyplot on Pycharm

by

Solution 1: is to install the GUI backend tk

I found a solution to my problem (thanks to the help of ImportanceOfBeingErnest).

All I had to do was to install tkinter through the Linux bash terminal using the following command:

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

instead of installing it with pip or directly in the virtual environment in Pycharm.

Solution 2: install any of the matplotlib supported GUI backends

  • solution 1 works fine because you get a GUI backend… in this case the TkAgg
  • however you can also fix the issue by installing any of the matplolib GUI backends like Qt5Agg, GTKAgg, Qt4Agg, etc
    • for example pip install pyqt5 will fix the issue also

NOTE:

  • usually this error appears when you pip install matplotlib and you are trying to display a plot in a GUI window and you do not have a python module for GUI display.
  • The authors of matplotlib made the pypi software deps not depend on any GUI backend because some people need matplotlib without any GUI backend.

More Related Contents:

  1. Pycharm does not show plot
  2. How to have one colorbar for all subplots
  3. When to use cla(), clf() or close() for clearing a plot in matplotlib?
  4. Matplotlib different size subplots
  5. pycharm doesn’t recognize pygame package
  6. How do I change the range of the x-axis with datetimes in matplotlib?
  7. How to simulate Jumping in Pygame for this particular code
  8. Bin size in Matplotlib (Histogram)
  9. numpy is already installed with Anaconda but I get an ImportError (DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found)
  10. Cleanest way to hide every nth tick label in matplotlib colorbar?
  11. Putting text in top left corner of matplotlib plot
  12. Networkx: Overlapping edges when visualizing MultiGraph
  13. matplotlib scatter plot colour as function of third variable [duplicate]
  14. How to add percentages on top of grouped bars
  15. How to make two plots side-by-side
  16. Plot multiple columns of pandas DataFrame using Seaborn
  17. How do I annotate types in a for-loop?
  18. Pandas and Matplotlib – fill_between() vs datetime64
  19. How to make a 3D scatter plot in matplotlib
  20. Finding the full width half maximum of a peak
  21. How to plot a mean line on a kdeplot between 0 and the y value of the mean
  22. How do I make matplotlib open a box for user comments?
  23. How do you determine which backend is being used by matplotlib?
  24. matplotlib share x axis but don’t show x axis tick labels for both, just one
  25. how to turn on minor ticks only on y axis matplotlib
  26. Sorting the order of bars in pandas/matplotlib bar plots
  27. How to change matplotlib backends
  28. Date ticks and rotation [duplicate]
  29. Set markers for individual points on a line
  30. add colorbar to a sequence of line plots

Leave a Comment