Stefan aka Noneus

I have to use Matlab for university. But starting it is annoying. You can’t link directly to the matlab-startup-script in a .desktop-file, because it crashes, if it is not started from a terminal. To overcome this hurdle I start matlab with a xterm. The xterm minimizes itself once started. You can find icons in <matlab-basedir>/X11/icons. The command I used is: xterm -iconic -e <matlab-basedir>/bin/matlab.

UPDATE:
I’m currently testing Kubuntu. Starting matlab in KDE can be done without an taskbar entry with kstart:

kstart –skiptaskbar –iconify xterm -e /home/noneus/Programs/matlab/bin/matlab