id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc,fix_version,see_also 662,"matlab from ""MIT Software"" does work, but hackishly",geofft,,"We made the matlab launcher start in a terminal to resolve #541; this ticket is here to track down the real issue. I'm not sure what it is -- there's a claim in the ticket that it's due to `$ATHENA_SYS` being unset, but a later one that it is in fact set, and another claim that it's due to `-desktop` being eaten, but the launcher does in fact start the desktop and `/proc/$(pgrep MATLAB)/cmdline` does not indicate `-desktop` (it's just 1/afs/.../unwrap /afs/.../MATLAB`). I wonder if it's relevant that fds 0, 1, and 2 appear(ed) to be closed. MATLAB runs for a while and then terminates.",defect,new,low,The Distant Future,--,,,,,