title: Plotting the data with scrollable x (time/horizontal) axis on Linux
body: <p>I want to plot data where x axis is long. If I plot the whole x axis then the plot shrinks and it is almost unreadable. I've found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9258534/ploting-real-size-figures-in-matplotlib-scrollbars-instead-of-zooming">this</a> answer on SO which points to <a href="http://wiki.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/ScrollingPlot?action=show" rel="noreferrer">following</a> scipy/matplotlib code. But When I try to run the mentioned code I get following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "scrollingPlot.py", line 88, in &lt;module&gt;
      app = MyApp()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py", line 8628, in __init__
      self._BootstrapApp()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py", line 8196, in _BootstrapApp
      return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
    File "scrollingPlot.py", line 82, in OnInit
      self.frame = MyFrame(parent=None,id=-1)
    File "scrollingPlot.py", line 21, in __init__
      self.scroll_range)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py", line 11226, in SetScrollbar
      return _core_.Window_SetScrollbar(*args, **kwargs)
  wx._core.PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "sb" failed at ../src/gtk/window.cpp(4754) in SetScrollbar(): this window is not scrollable
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>PS: Other solutions are also welcomed (preferably python, R, or something simple and multi platform)</p>
  
  <p>PPS: I've opened the <a href="https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/4988" rel="noreferrer">issue</a> for mentioned error</p>