Why aren't my MATLAB preferences saved on Linux?
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I'm using R2022b on Linux. On first boot, I switched my keyboard shortcuts to Windows style and turned on font anti-aliasing. These affects persist between sessions.
Now, however, whatever changes I make to the preferences do not persist. e.g. If I switch the font size to 12, it reverts to 10. If I change the theming, it reverts.
Running `prefsdir` in MATLAB always shows the same directory, `~/.matlab/R2022b`, so I don't think it has trouble finding the directory. The only error that pops up when I launch `matlab` from terminal is related to libcanberra, but that's a sound library.
Any ideas? Am I missing something obvious? I'd really like to have persistant preferences. Thanks.
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Chris
on 21 Sep 2022
Nice. Seems like it may get some attention as a bug too, looking at the other post.
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Shervin Sahba
on 21 Sep 2022
Edited: Shervin Sahba
on 27 Feb 2023
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Rudy Richardson
on 27 Feb 2023
Thanks! This worked for me on Linux Mint 21.1 Xfce (based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) and Matlab R2202b.
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Batuhan Baserdem
on 30 Dec 2022
This fix is not working for me; coupled with another bug that vcs integration causes matlab to crash; matlab is completely unusable for me; unless I act quick enough to open preferences and disable vcs integration on every launch. Really annoying.
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Xiaowei Lin
on 1 Apr 2023
Edited: Xiaowei Lin
on 3 Apr 2023
This fix works for me.
I combine this thread with the DPI thread: https://ch.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/406956-does-matlab-support-high-dpi-screens-on-linux succesfully to get a scaled-up version of MATLAB in Ubuntu using a high resolution monitor.
However the checkboxes in the menus, the sliding bar, the opening photo of MATLAB, etc. are still small.
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