How to make matlab accessable by clicks
If you wanna use matlab in linux and you don’t like start a terminal to run matlab every time, then this is the text file you need to type:
[Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Matlab GenericName=Matlab Comment=Matlab:The Language of Technical Computing Exec=/usr/local/MATLAB/R2010b/bin/matlab -desktop Icon=/home/sun/.icons/matlab.png StartupNotify=true Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Application;Development
And you need to save the file here:
/usr/share/applications/matlab.desktop
A possible option is this one: