From cdc6707ad3e6c2175851d14c02241bfa24eb6c6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Breloff <tom@breloff.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:46:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] pyplot bg color

---
 docs/example_generation.jl | 2 +-
 src/backends/pyplot.jl     | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/example_generation.jl b/docs/example_generation.jl
index 37ded2f9..b19c8861 100644
--- a/docs/example_generation.jl
+++ b/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)
 
 
diff --git a/src/backends/pyplot.jl b/src/backends/pyplot.jl
index 71337316..ee2e52fb 100644
--- a/src/backends/pyplot.jl
+++ b/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