Random Problems opening Matlab (Java based GUI)

[Auke Kok]

forfan forfan wrote:

>Yes, I think you are right. 
>Matlab is not stable under linux.
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>On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:00:20 +0100, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
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>>Hi
>>
>>I hardly see how this could be a problem in Xfce. I think it's a bug in
>>Matlab that gets triggered in Xfce, but unfortunately this is a
>>commercial closed source application, and an expensive one, so there is
>>really no chance that I can even put my hands on it.
>>
>>Sorry, that will stay unfixed unless you ask Matlab, or try to
>>investigate by yourself.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Olivier.
>>
>>
>>On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 12:20 +0100, Xavier Otazu wrote:
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>>>      Hi!
>>>
>>>      This is a problem I suffered with xfce 4.0, but it reamins in xfce 4.2
>>>
>>>      When I try to open Matlab 7.0 R14, it randomly hungs.
>>>
>>>      If I start xfce session and immmdiately tries to open Matlab, it starts without
>>>problem. Sometimes, after opening some other programs (for example, nedit), I
>>>cannot open Matlab because it hungs just after splash screen, and workspace
>>>window does not appear (I try to start it without splash screen, but workspace
>>>never appears). I cannot kill Matlab process with Ctrl+C on the terminal I
>>>opened Matlab, but I have to explicitly kill the PID. The only way to solve this
>>>problem, is to close xfce session and restart it.
>>>
>>>      This problem never appeared on KDE. In fact, when this problem appear on xfce,
>>>I open a parallel KDE session, and Matlab works properly on KDE but not on XFCE.
>>>
>>>      I think it is a xfce (i.e. xfwm or other daemon) problem. Matlab GUI is
>>>coded in Java.
>>>


well, I fail to see how matlab is unstable, I never have any problems 
with it under linux myself. The only problem I have seen with other JAVA 
based applications was that that somehow they would pop up as a big gray 
window (actually there would be two different colour gray areas inside 
the window) when ssh/X-forwarding from a solaris host to a linux/xfce 
machine... but I'd rather blame suns java for that, not Xfce.

sofar