cygwin and matlab 7.7 problems

[jchas5]

Howdy!

I have a pretty interesting problem, I installed a new version of matlab on an ubuntu linux box. Two users in my group are using cygwin on their PC's to connect and export the matlab displays back to their local machines. Both users are having problems with the Matlab gui; both are experiencing anomalies in the Menu functions, where they can not click on menu functions, i.e save, open, new, etc. They are able to run these commands using 'hotkeys', but clicking on the option in the pull down menu is not possible.

When I tested it using my OSX, 10.5.5, and export the Matlab gui back to my machine, there are no functionality problems. I can access all menu items normally.

Using a windows emulator, I installed cygwin and experienced the same problems. When I installed it I noticed that the installer was the latest release, and the X11 packages are for X11R6. I noticed there was a new release of X in November 2008, X11R7, but I can not find out where or how to install this update to see if this fixes the menu bugs. All the sites recommend just using the cygwin setup.exe and selecting all the X11 packages, but that does not seem to work.

That being said....  I have a few questions...

1. Has anyone else experienced this problem with Matlab 7.6 or 7.7 using cygwin?
2. Does anyone know how to update the X11R6 to X11R7?
3. Does anyone have any approaches to fixing this?

Thanks for your help in advance....

-J

[Jon TURNEY]

jchas5 wrote:
> I have a pretty interesting problem, I installed a new version of matlab on
> an ubuntu linux box. Two users in my group are using cygwin on their PC's to
> connect and export the matlab displays back to their local machines. Both
> users are having problems with the Matlab gui; both are experiencing
> anomalies in the Menu functions, where they can not click on menu functions,
> i.e save, open, new, etc. They are able to run these commands using
> 'hotkeys', but clicking on the option in the pull down menu is not possible.

I can't work out from what you've written here what exactly changed when the
problem started.

Did you upgrade matlab and it stopped working (when it was working before)?
Or you're trying to set this up and it has never worked properly?

> When I tested it using my OSX, 10.5.5, and export the Matlab gui back to my
> machine, there are no functionality problems. I can access all menu items
> normally.
>
> Using a windows emulator, I installed cygwin and experienced the same
> problems. When I installed it I noticed that the installer was the latest
> release, and the X11 packages are for X11R6. I noticed there was a new
> release of X in November 2008, X11R7, but I can not find out where or how to
> install this update to see if this fixes the menu bugs. All the sites
> recommend just using the cygwin setup.exe and selecting all the X11
> packages, but that does not seem to work.
>
> That being said....  I have a few questions...
>
> 1. Has anyone else experienced this problem with Matlab 7.6 or 7.7 using
> cygwin?
> 2. Does anyone know how to update the X11R6 to X11R7?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2008-11/msg00000.html

Just running the cygwin setup.exe program will update to X11R7.4, unless you
are taking special steps otherwise.  Perhaps you could work through
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html (now with
up-to-date screenshots :-) ) and say which step gives you a problem?  Also,
I'm not sure exactly how you are telling the packages you are finding are X11R6.8?

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[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

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Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Just running the cygwin setup.exe program will update to X11R7.4, unless
> you are taking special steps otherwise.  Perhaps you could work through
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html (now with
> up-to-date screenshots :-) ) and say which step gives you a problem?
> Also, I'm not sure exactly how you are telling the packages you are
> finding are X11R6.8?

Thanks for the updated docs.  (Is there no mailing list notification of
CVS commits to the webpage?  cgf, could their be?)  May I suggest that
the xinit be listed as recommended (rather than just optional), since it
provides the most common ways to launch the server?


Yaakov
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[Christopher Faylor-8]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 07:26:32PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:

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>Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> Just running the cygwin setup.exe program will update to X11R7.4, unless
>> you are taking special steps otherwise.  Perhaps you could work through
>> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html (now with
>> up-to-date screenshots :-) ) and say which step gives you a problem?
>> Also, I'm not sure exactly how you are telling the packages you are
>> finding are X11R6.8?
>
>Thanks for the updated docs.  (Is there no mailing list notification of
>CVS commits to the webpage?

Yes.  cygwin-webpages-cvs

cgf

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