Datatip maximized window linux

When a plot is maximized, the datacursor doesn't follow the mouse in Linux (Fedora/Ubuntu).

Basically all versions in recent memory suffer from this including R2016b.

Answer 1

[Mark]

You need to install wmname

dnf install wmname

apt-get install wmname

Now you should change the window manager name to LG3D. Before executing matlab, run

wmname LG3D
matlab

This bugreport helped me solve the issue.

Permanently setting wmname

For some reason, you can’t just add wmname LG3D to .bashrc. Maybe the window manager needs to be enabled first. Instead, I created a shadow matlab script that sets the command everytime.

I assume you are running all commands as root. You can change to root with the sudo -i command.

To do this, move the old Matlab launcher

cd /usr/local/MATLAB/R2016b/bin
mv matlab matlab_actual

Now create a new file called matlab with the following content

#!/bin/sh

wmname LG3D

/usr/local/MATLAB/R2016a/bin/matlab_actual "$@"
Make sure you use "$@" and not just $@ as explained here.

Now make sure the new file is executable

chmod +x matlab