"Vishaka " <vishak31789@yahoo.co.in> wrote in message
news:k5jck9$3fr$1@newscl01ah.mathworks.com...
> I was recently having a strange issue with my MATLAB install (R2008b, on
> Ubuntu 10.04), where the cursor in the text editor was painfully slow.
> I tried installing the Oracle Java 8 JRE and setting the MATLAB_JAVA
> environment variable to use it. This seemed to fix the slow cursor
> problem, only to kill all plot functions. For example, when I tried
> running plot( 0:10, 0:10 ), the plot window shows up, with the menus and
> toolbars intact, but the rest of the window is garbled. Specifically, the
> rest of the figure window is a replica of whatever was already displayed
> on the screen (kind of a Rene Magritte painting).
> I did try reinstalling the nvidia drivers (and even removing and using the
> nouveau drivers), but no luck. I also tried oracle jre 8, but to no avail.
> I finally had to fall back to the in-built MATLAB jvm, with the painfully
> slow text editor.
>
> I also tried running it with different kernel versions, but no luck.
> Whatever it is, has anyone else encountered an issue with the oracle JRE
> in this regard?
Have you contacted MathWorks Technical Support for the slow editor cursor
issue?
MATLAB is only officially supported with the version of Java with which it
ships. Changing to a newer or older version may not work correctly, as
stated in this technical support document:
http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-1812J/index.html?solution=1-1812J
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