Newlines in X Axis in Matplotlib Cause Undesired Window Resizing/Jumping/Flickering Behavior-CodePudding

I am plotting dates and times on the x axis in matplotlib. Because I want to plot as many labels as possible, I am using newlines in the x labels like so:

Unfortunately, this has the side effect of resizing the matplotlib window when I hover over the graph since it tries to print the x value, which contains the newlines, at the bottom. See this video here as a demonstration:

CodePudding user response：

I don't want to get rid of the toolbar, but I just need it to not print the x point in the bottom right corner (which is what's causing the window to resize).

You can monkeypatch ax.format_coord to display a differently formatted string for a given x, y value (or None as below).

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.format_coord = lambda x, y : '' # don't display anything
plt.show()

This is scope creep but if you want to modify the string of the original ax.format_coord, then you have to wrap the original function:

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
old_function = ax.format_coord
ax.format_coord = lambda x, y: old_function(x, y)   "some random nonsense"
plt.show()