gnuplot: plot flashes and disspears

OS:openSuSE Leap-42.1
When I run gnuplot from the shell or a script, the resulting plot flashes by on the screen and then disappears
  1. Put a pause -1 after the plot command in the file, or at the file end.
  2. Use command gnuplot filename.gp - (yes, dash is the last parameter) to stay in the interactive regime when the script completes.
  3. Run gnuplot as gnuplot -persist
  4. On Windows you can also use either -persist or /noend.
  5. Give the persist option as part of the set terminal command.

reference: gnuplot FAQ 7.4