matlab 5 will not start ?

[Stefan Hudson]

On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 07:29:54PM -0500, Tariq S Bakir wrote:
> hey....
> 
> i am using vnc on a sun machine (solaris2.5) to run matlab 5...
> however whenever i try to run it.. it just hangs up (that is the matlab
> prompt will not come up.. just hangs)

This isn't an answer, but perhaps it will shed some light on the
problem.  I used to use Matlab on various machines (Sun, HP, SGI),
over X on a Linux X server running XFree86 and fvwm.  For some reason,
every time Matlab starts up in this configuration, ALL windows on the
X server will disappear.  Right clicking and selecting any window from
the list (in fvwm) will bring ALL windows, including the matlab window,
up.  Matlab will then run with no problems.

Again, this probably won't help you, but it does show that Matlab does
something really screwy on startup.  I think it was with both version
4 and 5.  I don't work with it anymore, so I can't confirm directly.

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