Problem with maximizing figure window in MATLAB 2016a

After maximizing figure in MATLAB 2016a on my Linux machine, the figure window behaves weirdly. Mouse actions happen somewhere other than where they are intended to. Any idea? Attaching are the examples: zooming-in and selecting options.

[Pedro Palhares]

Have you ever found an answer for this problem?

[Rainer]

I have experienced this problem too. Could you solve it in the meantime?

[svooo]

Hey, Just wanted to say I also experience the same problem. In my case it is not only on figures, but with the main window as well, if I maximize it. which Linux Distro are you using? I noticed it happens only on GTK3 based DEs, like Cinnamon or Gnome (I guess Unity should be on the list as well), but I dont remember this happening with KDE Plasma desktop

[svooo]

Well, I submitted a bug report to Matlab and it turned out that some versions of Java doesn't play well with GTK due to some sort of bug in java. so changing the command to start matlab with the system java version solved the problem from me. the following I adopted from Arch wiki

MATLAB_JAVA=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre matlab

I tried both java-7-openjdk and java-8-openjdk, in both cases the issue disappeared

Answer 1

[svooo]

As I mentioned in the comment, the problem is that some versions of java don't play well along gtk. in my case using the system java instead of the default java that comes with Matlab solves the issue. to start from the terminal you can use a command specified in the previous comment, otherwise you can modify the matlab.desktop file, by changing the exec line to the following

Exec=env MATLAB_JAVA=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre matlab -desktop

[Billa]

Thank you very much for the answer. It solved the problem.

Answer 2

[Mahaveer Jain]

The above solution work but in case if you get error at startup, you can use oracle Java (/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8) which I felt better experience than openjdk.