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chra

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Registered: 2019-01-04

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[SOLVED] Can open matlab from terminal but not from rofi

For some reason I am able to open matlab from the terminal by just typing 'matlab', however in the rofi launcher if I try to open matlab, the splash screen shows but shortly after disappears with no result. In my terminal I have no alias for matlab, and when I check journalctl I see nothing.

Could someone help me debug this issue? Thanks.

Last edited by chra (2019-02-24 23:59:19)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Can open matlab from terminal but not from rofi

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … ine-vs-gui

I seem to remember something like this due to the stdin filehandle status.

Edit, found it:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=216077

Last edited by seth (2019-02-24 14:34:49)

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chra

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Registered: 2019-01-04

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED] Can open matlab from terminal but not from rofi

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … ine-vs-gui

I seem to remember something like this due to the stdin filehandle status.

Edit, found it:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=216077

Thanks for that. I looked everywhere for a question exactly like this.

What I did was create a matlab_desktop script that ran matlab -desktop. Then I added that script to my path in .zprofile (.profile if not using zsh). Adding it to .zshrc or .bashrc won't work. Now I am able to call matlab_desktop from rofi and it won't crash!