Hi I'm pretty new to i3, but danm i have to say i love it!
But i've faced a problem, i can't open matlab through the dmenu, but if i open the terminal and type in matlab i works like a charm.
Is it possible to open it from dmenu or do i have to open it through terminal ?
Thanks in advance!
I kinda forgot about this thread But i found a solution for the problem. In /usr/bin make a script named matlab that contains this:
!#/bin/bash
/usr/local/MATLAB/R2014a/bin/matlab -desktop`
make it executables:
chmod a+x matlab
not you should be able to run matlab from dmenu
I have issues with matlab and dmenu too. I could not launch matlab from dmenu. I partially solved the issue by putting an one-line shell script in my PATH with the line: /path/to/matlab -desktop. Now, the strange thing: If I have a window open (like an xterm) in the current workspace, then launching the above script with dmenu starts up matlab fine (albeit, in half the screen). Then I can move the matlab to a new workspace on its own. But, if I launch the above script on an empty workspace, matlab doesn't start properly and I only get a grey window.
You mean dmenu_run, I suppose? Start dmenu_run from the command line, and see if there is some error.
One possibility is that the cache file that dmenu_run uses internally, somehow has not updated itself to include this application. If so, deleting the cache file will cause it to be regenerated. Look at less $(which dmenu_run) to find the location of this cache file.
If not, check if the binary is in $PATH as dmenu_run sees it.
Good luck!
To find out what happens, make `dmenu_run` do some logging. In my version that would be `| ${SHELL:-/bin/sh} >tmp/dmenu_log 2>&1 &`. Maybe write a line in dmenu_run to the effect of `env >> tmp/dmenu_env`, as I suspect the error to be in the environment not completely set.
could not make the command working, it just says: bash: syntax error near unexpected token ';&' When i installed matlab i had to go to the path where it's installed and open the file there, so i had to make a symbolic link so i just should type matlab in the terminal to open it.
Asked: 2013-09-22 14:43:20 +0000
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Last updated: May 04 '14
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