Make nbagg recognise the requested facecolor of a figure

[willfurnass]

The nbagg backend in Matplotlib (1.4.3) seems to ignore calls to figure.set_facecolor.

I know that one can disable figure background transparency with nbagg.transparent : False in one's matplotlibrc (not a particularly well documented feature) but even with that set, the background is grey rather than any color requested with figure.set_facecolor.

[jenshnielsen]

I cannot reproduce:

import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
matplotlib.rcParams.update({'figure.facecolor': 'red',
                            'savefig.facecolor': 'yellow'})
plt.figure()
plt.plot([3, 2, 1])

with matplotlib.rc_context({'nbagg.transparent': False}):
    f= plt.figure()

plt.plot([3, 2, 1])
plt.show()

This taken from the nbagg UAT produces a red figure as expected with both 1.5rc and 1.4.3 can you please provide a minimal example of what you are doing?

[willfurnass]

Apologies, I was calling set_facecolor with an invalid MPL color spec (fig.set_facecolor(1,1,1) rather than fig.set_facecolor((1,1,1)). Closing.