[19768] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.0.15: matlab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Sun Sep 9 00:03:09 2001
Message-Id: <200109090403.AAA25451@quiche-lorraine.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 00:03:02 -0400
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
System name: quiche-lorraine.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.0.15 (with mkserv)
Display type: XFree86 3.3.6a SVGA
Shell: /bin/athena/bash
Window manager: unknown
What were you trying to do?
Run matlab without spawning a new xterm by passing the "-tty"
flag, and run plotting commands in that matlab instance.
What's wrong:
The plotting commands returned without error, but did not plot
anything. For reference, these specific commands fail silently:
>> x = [1:20];
>> y = sin(x);
>> stem(x,y);
What should have happened:
The plot/stem should have generated a plot.
The Right Thing happened under matlab 5.x.
This appears to be a change in the script that launches matlab, and
now passes -nodisplay to the matlab binary to avoid getting the java
desktop. I get the desired behavior by running:
/mit/matlab_v6.1.0/distrib/bin/matlab -nojvm
I do not think that having a "no X" option is unreasonable,
but there should be a way to run matlab without its own xterm
without crippling the plotting functionality.
