{"id":113,"date":"2008-05-23T12:27:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T11:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2008-05-23T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T11:27:36","slug":"matlab-2007b-problem-in-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Matlab 2007b problem in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I wrote about Mathematica 6.0.2 not working properly on Ubuntu 8.04 and today I discover that Matlab 2007b doesn’t like it much either. When you run Matlab you might get nothing more than an empty gray window and Matlab will essentially be unusable. Apparently the problem stems from a bug with Java applications when using Compiz or Beryl effects so just turn them off and all will be well.<\/p>\n

To fix the problem just click on System -> Preferences -> Appearance <\/strong>in the GNOME menu and select the Visual Effects <\/strong>tab. Set the effects to None <\/strong>and then click on close. Matlab 2007b should now work properly and you won’t be wasting any CPU cycles on eye candy.<\/p>\n

Of course you might not want to disable all of the pretty visual effects. If so then try the workarounds detailed in The Mathwork’s article on this issue<\/a> – I haven’t tried any of these extra tricks since they are unsupported and I am more insterested in a working Matlab than a pretty desktop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I wrote about Mathematica 6.0.2 not working properly on Ubuntu 8.04 and today I discover that Matlab 2007b doesn’t like it much either. When you run Matlab you might get nothing more than an empty gray window and Matlab will essentially be unusable. Apparently the problem stems from a bug with Java applications when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","category-math-software","category-matlab"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}