I've got a matplotlib graph with labelled X-ticks: The labels repeat (in case that's relevant). In the real graph, there is a multi-level X-axis with more clarification in the lower layers. That works fine, but I want to be able to hover the mouse and see the X-coordinate in the top-right of the graph. Whenever I set xticks to labels, I just get a blank X-coordinate: If I use ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter('{x:g}'), it gets rid of my labels but the cursor coordinate starts working: Is there any way to make the cursor location still show the X coordinate even when I have a labelled X axis? This also affects mplcursors: it shows the X value as empty if I click on a line between points or with the label if I click exactly on a point (whereas I'd like to see the underlying numerical X-coordinate as "A" is a bit meaningless without the context from the secondary axis): Source code: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np import mplcursors x = np.arange(0, 9) y = np.random.rand(*x.shape) labels = ['A', 'B', 'C']*3 fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.plot(x, y, 'bx-', label='random') ax.set_xticks(x, labels=labels) # This makes the coordinate display work, but gets rid of the labels: # ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter('{x:g}') mplcursors.cursor(multiple=True) plt.show() Continue reading...
