Missing icons in Matlab, Ubuntu, Linux

aboSamoor | October 24, 2008 | 12:06 pm

Running Matlab in linux is as easy as windows, but if you are running compiz you will miss the icons in matlab !!!
To solve that you have many options

1-Replace the AWT library with MToolkit [thanks to Linux Blog]
You can run

export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit matlab
to make this replacement permanent
bash -c "echo export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit >> .bashrc" source .bashrc matlab

2-Disabling compiz

you can run this to do that
metacity --replace
or run the same command in the Run Application dialog [you can invoke this dialog by pressing Alt+F2]

3-Running Matlab without Graphical interface, working with command line

This is illustrated in the previous post

If you don’t have Matlab and you want to install it on Linux you can find the tutorial here

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Tags: awt, gui, icons, linux, matlab, toolkit
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Hi, Thanks for the info. I am having a problem

Jackie | November 24, 2008 | 7:21 am

Hi,

Thanks for the info. I am having a problem in matlab (7.1) in Ubuntu.
I cannot type this sign (^) in matlab but other places. ( I can type in the browser or in the terminal, but not in the matlab)

Is the solution you are posting was meant to solve such issue?
Or , could you give me some advices?

Thanks a lot

Jackie

[...] usually brings problems as cpu high usage and rendering

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