Question: how to use ipympl to simply include axes in ipywidets layout?

[shaunc]

I am trying to include a recangular grid created with pcolormesh in a ipywigets grid.

(1) It seems ipympl includes all kinds of extra stuff I don't want: window caption, extra space around axes, controls for panning & zooming, etc? How can I turn all of this stuff off?

(2) Plots seem to be displaying more than once, even though I call plt.ioff()?

[shaunc]

I can accomplish what I need to do without ipympl, using:

    png_buffer = io.BytesIO()
    fig.savefig(png_buffer, format="png")
    plt.close(fig)
    img = widgets.Image(value=png_buffer.getvalue(), format="png")
    box = widgets.HBox([img])

I guess this is out of scope of ipympl, though would be nice to have in the documentation.