Thanks! I can reproduce the issue on both 9.2.1 and 10.0.
Playing around with this example I noticed at least two problems, which may or may not be related.

First of all, calling "xlable()" does not re-size the plot until
another "subplot()" is called:

octave:1> set(0, "defaultaxesfontsize", 24)
octave:2> subplot(1, 2, 1) ;
octave:3> xlabel("longitude")
octave:4> subplot(1, 2, 1) # has no effect
octave:5> subplot(1, 2, 2) # now Y-axis is re-sized to fit the label

Another one is that "colorbar()" seems to inhibits resizing of the axis (as in your original example). Somebody else needs to look at the code to figure out what is happening.
A workaround is to call "colorbar()" the last, e.g.:

octave:1> set(0, "defaultaxesfontsize", 24)
octave:2> subplot(1, 2, 1)
octave:3> xlabel("longitude")
octave:4> subplot(1, 2, 2)
octave:5> xlabel("longitude")
octave:6> subplot(1, 2, 1)
octave:7> colorbar

Dmitri.
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Can you post a screenshot? I do not see this problem with mine (flatpak 9.2.0 version, attached).


Dmitri.
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