How can I get scaled x ticks=false to work with xbar stacked in pgfplots?

Question

Consider the following code:
documentclass{article}
usepackage{tikz}
usepackage{pgf}
usepackage{pgfplots}
pgfplotsset{compat=1.15}
begin{filecontents}{test.csv}
name,a,b
name1,1000,1000000
name2,1000,1000000
end{filecontents}
begin{document}
begin{tikzpicture}
  pgfplotstableread[col sep=comma]{test.csv}datatable
  begin{axis}[
      xbar stacked,   % Stacked horizontal bars
      ytick=data,     % Use as many tick labels as y coordinates
      yticklabels from table={datatable}{name},
      scaled x ticks=false,
    ]
    addplot table [x=a,  meta=name, col sep=comma, y expr=coordindex] {test.csv};
    addplot table [x=b,  meta=name, col sep=comma, y expr=coordindex] {test.csv};
    legend{a,b}
  end{axis}
end{tikzpicture}
end{document}

I get

Unlike in normal plots, the x ticks are still scaled.  How do I get them to not be scaled and instead display as things like 200,000?

Stefan Pinnow · Accepted Answer

To do so you can change the number format style to fixed. But then you get other problems, as you can see in the result below. A way out of that (and staying at that number format) would be to change the ticklabel (font) size, the axis width or the tick distance, which is up to you.
(In addition I did some other refinements to your code, just in case you don't know that stuff.)
% used PGFPlots v1.17
begin{filecontents}{test.csv}
name,a,b
name1,1000,1000000
name2,1000,1000000
end{filecontents}
documentclass[border=5pt]{standalone}
usepackage{pgfplots}
    pgfplotsset{compat=1.15}
begin{document}
begin{tikzpicture}
    begin{axis}[
        % (just to make it look better)
        width=axisdefaultwidth,
        height=3cm,
        enlarge y limits={abs=0.5},
        % ---
        xbar stacked,
        ytick=data,
        % (you can state the file name here as well)
        yticklabels from table={test.csv}{name},
        scaled x ticks=false,
        % with the "number format" you can choose how they show up
        xticklabel style={
            /pgf/number format/fixed,
        },
        % (moved common stuff here so you don't need to repeat it)
        table/col sep=comma,
        table/y expr=coordindex,
        table/meta=name,
    ]
        addplot table [x=a] {test.csv};
        addplot table [x=b] {test.csv};
        legend{a,b}
    end{axis}
end{tikzpicture}
end{document}

How can I get scaled x ticks=false to work with xbar stacked in pgfplots?

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