Unable to use "run in terminal" for MatLab and Gno

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Lemma · Post by **Lemma** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:18 am

I'd like to setup an icon with MatLab (R14) instead of having to start a terminal and type "matlab". I used to be able to do that by choosing "run in terminal" but as of gnome 2.6 (I think, I did a compleate reinstall also, for other reasons...) the terminal window does show up, as do the matlab startscreen but then it just quits... I can start it if I manually open matlab from an xterm-window but not if I use an icon, neather with the "run in terminal" nor with "xterm -hold -e matlab". I am at loss here, any of you know how to proceed?

I am using a matlab site-license so it may have something to do with it not being able to reach the licance-server, but as it does when I run the commans manually it does seem a bit far fetched to me...

Lemma · Post by **Lemma** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:24 pm

Am I really the only one with this problem?

tallest · Post by **tallest** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:24 pm

No, you are not, but I haven't been able to find a solution either. I'm using fluxbox and I am trying to get matlab into the menu, but I have the same result. I found what claims to be a solution to the problem here but this didn't help me (I just end up with a file that has matlab's initial "To Get Started" message and the first matlab prompt in it). Tell me if the method mentioned in that link helps you.

Aaron

BlackEdder · Post by **BlackEdder** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:26 pm

What happens if you use the nosplash option

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matlab -nosplash

Lemma · Post by **Lemma** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:10 pm

tallest wrote:No, you are not, but I haven't been able to find a solution either. I'm using fluxbox and I am trying to get matlab into the menu, but I have the same result. I found what claims to be a solution to the problem here but this didn't help me (I just end up with a file that has matlab's initial "To Get Started" message and the first matlab prompt in it). Tell me if the method mentioned in that link helps you.

Aaron

I have reinstalled the whole system (due to other reasons, the computer may have been compromised) and it has worked just fine after that ?!? I run matlab as "matlab" and have the "run in terminal" checked - no more than that...

beerisgoodmate · Post by **beerisgoodmate** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:04 am

Matlab doesn't like to be run from menu's for some reason...

The work around is to run matlab with:
xterm -e matlab
which starts matlab from a terminal..
or xterm -e nohup matlab &
which starts matlab from a terminal and closes the terminal when matlab has started.

Lemma · Post by **Lemma** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:38 am

Solved a long time ago but I should have posted what I did (I did as you suggested

). Thx for your reply, now the solution is out there (but not thanks to me

).

beerisgoodmate · Post by **beerisgoodmate** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:28 am

for completeness, mathworks have there own solution for this problem:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/soluti ... on=1-1B5ZV

Basically when you create a menu or icon replace "/usr/local/matlab7/matlab" with "setsid /usr/local/matlab7/matlab -desktop"