<p dir="auto">I install matplotlib on OS X using a Gentoo prefix install. Everything seems to work ok. The only problem I've encountered so far is that when I try to save something to a file, I can't change the filename on the dialog box, because the keyboard strokes go to the terminal where I am running python. I don't know if this is a matplotlib issue or a issue in tkinter from Python, but matplotlib is the only place where I have this problem.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm using OS X Lion, Python 2.7.2 built by Homebrew with llvm-gcc, and matplotlib installed via <code class="notranslate">pip install git+git://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git</code>. There are no errors or other alarms during installation.</p>
<p dir="auto">When I make an interactive figure with the Mac OSX backend the keyboard focus does not go to the plot window, it stays in the terminal. Mouse focus does go to the window. Clicking on the save button brings up the save dialog and I can click on things there, but typing just sends text to the terminal, making it impossible to specify a file name.</p>
<p dir="auto">This seems to be the same as an issue reported on the ipython repo last year: <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="2618815" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/1188" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/ipython/ipython/issues/1188/hovercard" href="https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/1188">ipython/ipython#1188</a> (I am not using ipython, though.)</p>
<p dir="auto">If I switch to the Tkagg backend things work fine.</p>