Add Matlab to main menu

Posted by Tim on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Tim
Published on 2011-02-17T02:10:11Z Indexed on 2011/02/17 7:33 UTC
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I was trying to add the installed matlab to the menu of Applications under Ubuntu 10.10.

I clicked System->Preference->Main Menu -> Programming -> New Item, where I input the Matlab file .../MatlabR2010b/bin/matlab as the command, and selected the type to be "Application". Then I finished.

But when i click the item in the menu of Applications, the Matlab icon shows up a few seconds and then nothing else happens.

If I select the type to be "Application in Terminal" in the last step of adding Matlab to the menu of Applications, then when I click the item in the menu of Applications, there will be firstly a terminal window and then the Matlab command window.

So I was wondering how to solve the problem of Matlab not starting when the type has been selected to be "Application"? Also is there a way to eliminate the terminal appearing when the type has been selected to be "Application in Terminal"? Thanks!

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