matplotlib configuration for inline backend in jupyter notebook

Question

I\'d like to learn how to configure the defaults for matplotlib using the inline backend in jupyter notebook. Specifically, I\'d like to set default \'figure.figsize’ to [7.

Answer 1

For jupyter 5.x and above with IPython kernels, you can just override particular keys and leave the rest by putting things like this, with your desired figsize in your ~/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_kernel_config.py:

c = get_config()
c.InlineBackend.rc.update({"figure.figsize": (12, 10)})