On Oct 1, 2007, at 10:04 , Stefan O'Rear wrote:
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:28:25PM +0200, Christian Thiemann wrote:
It looks like it's a problem with Xmonad. I fired up an Xnest with fvwm and MATLAB works fine there. And Xnest with wmii and MATLAB works as well.
Is the MATLAB gui written in Java? There is a known bug in the Java windowing code which prevents it from working correctly with non-reparenting window managers like xmonad.
Yes, the Matlab GUI is Java. Another known workaround that often (but not always, for unknown reasons) works is export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit before starting Java programs. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH