Bug summary

Under version 3.8.0 the plot window does not appear when using MacOSX as the backend (default under Mac OS). This is not an issues with the previous 3.7.3 version or when backend is set to TkAgg.

Code for reproduction

importmatplotlibimportmatplotlib.pyplotaspltimportnumpyasnpfrommatplotlibimportcm# matplotlib.use(backend="TkAgg")plt.style.use("_mpl-gallery")# Make dataX=np.arange(-5,5,0.25)Y=np.arange(-5,5,0.25)X,Y=np.meshgrid(X,Y)R=np.sqrt(X**2+Y**2)Z=np.sin(R)# Plot the surfacefig,ax=plt.subplots(subplot_kw={"projection":"3d"})ax.plot_surface(X,Y,Z,vmin=Z.min()*2,cmap=cm.Blues)ax.set(xticklabels=[],yticklabels=[],zticklabels=[])plt.show(block=False)input("Hit [return] to end")plt.close("all")

Actual outcome

No plot is generated.

Expected outcome

Additional information

If the code line

matplotlib.use(backend="TkAgg")

is uncommented the code will work as expected.

Operating system

Mac OS 13.5.2

Matplotlib Version

3.8.0

Matplotlib Backend

MacOSX

Python version

3.11.5

Jupyter version

No response

Installation

conda