pyplot bg color

docs/example_generation.jl

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ end
 # note: generate separately so it's easy to comment out
 generate_markdown(:qwt)
 generate_markdown(:gadfly)
-generate_markdown(:unicodeplots)
+@osx_only generate_markdown(:unicodeplots)
 generate_markdown(:pyplot)
 
 

src/backends/pyplot.jl

@@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ function plot!(::PyPlotPackage, plt::Plot; kw...)
     d[:serieshandle] = plotfunc(d[:x], d[:y]; extraargs...)
   end
 
+  # this sets the bg color inside the grid (plt.o.o == matplotlib.Figure)
+  plt.o.o[:axes][1][:set_axis_bgcolor](getPyPlotColor(plt.initargs[:background_color]))
+
   push!(plt.seriesargs, d)
   plt
 end