I think I finally found a fix to maximizing plots in matlab and having the datatip follow your cursor correctly.
I think a related problem has been documented on the Matlab Central
If I recall correctly, I had tried to fix this a long time ago as well, but now it seems to have worked. I’m working on an updated system using Fedora 25 (64bit).
You need to install wmname
sudo dnf 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.
It seems that Matlab bundles an old version of libstdc++ that confilcts with
that of a modern linux install. The conflicting versions cause matlab to crash
when using hardware acceleration for OpenGL. You might get the following error message:
Error using gca
While setting the 'Parent' property of 'Axes':
Can't load
'/usr/local/MATLAB/R2016a/bin/glnxa64/libmwosgserver.so':
/usr/local/MATLAB/R2016a/bin/glnxa64/../../sys/os/glnxa64/libstdc++.so.6:
version 'CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by /lib64/libGLU.so.1)
This
post explains the issue and suggests that one exports the variable LD_PRELOAD
before launching matlab.
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
matlab
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
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
/usr/local/MATLAB/R2016a/bin/matlab_actual "$@"
Now make sure the new file is executable
chmod +x matlab
If you haven’t done so, you can install Matlab in a system directory so that you can launch it by just typing matlab. To do so run the following command
sudo ln -s /usr/local/MATLAB/R2016b/bin/matlab /usr/local/bin/.
I also made a few fedora launchers that came be obtained through the Copr repository. It has different launchers for each version of Matlab in case you have concurrent installs.