On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:45:34PM -0700, Robert L. Knighten wrote:
> I am encountering the following peculiar problem. I use the "MiniButtons" and
> use one of them to start Matlab using
>
> *MiniButtons - matlab32c_icon.xpm Exec exec matlab
>
> When I do this I have the unfortunate effect that using control-c at the
> Matlab command line, which should stop the currently executing Matlab command,
> kills the X server and all programs running under X.
>
> If instead I use
>
> *MiniButtons - matlab32c_icon.xpm Exec exec xterm -e matlab
>
> everything works fine, except of course I have an extra xterm hanging around.
>
> The same behavior occurs if I invoke matlab from a menu.
Strange. What fvwm version is this? Does any of the programs
leave a core dump on the disk?
> The people at Mathworks (home of Matlab) are trying to reproduce and then
> understand this problem, but so far there has been no success. Does this ring
> a bell with any of you?
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Fri May 03 2002 - 05:34:42 BST