[Matplotlib-users] Setting xticks rotation in matplotlibrc

[Éric Depagne]

Hi all, 

I'm trying to set the rotation angle of the xticks in my matplotlibrc file 
using the following:
xtick.rotation:       45
But it has no effect.
When I start ipython, it loads my matplotlibrc file and I get the following 
message:
Bad key xtick.rotation in file /home/eric/.config/matplotlib/matplotlibrc, line 
472 ('xtick.rotation:       45')                                                                      

I wonder if that's the expected behaviour, and that one can only set the 
rotation using 
plt.xticks(rotation=45)

Thanks.
Éric.