Xmonad отрисовывает матлаб в виде белого прямоугольника.
Первое, что нагуглилось.
$> export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit
$> Unable to initialize com.mathworks.mwswing.MJStartup
Fatal Error on startup: Failure loading desktop class
Затем
$> export MATLAB_JAVA=/opt/sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.26/
$> Unable to initialize com.mathworks.mwswing.MJStartup
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Can't load library: /opt/sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.26/lib/amd64/motif12/libmawt.so
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1706)
at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:770)
at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1003)
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1807)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1724)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:823)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1028)
at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:50)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.awt.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraries(NativeLibLoader.java:38)
at sun.awt.DebugHelper.<clinit>(DebugHelper.java:29)
at java.awt.Component.<clinit>(Component.java:566)
at javax.swing.ImageIcon$2.run(ImageIcon.java:95)
at javax.swing.ImageIcon$2.run(ImageIcon.java:93)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.swing.ImageIcon.createNoPermsComponent(ImageIcon.java:92)
at javax.swing.ImageIcon.access$000(ImageIcon.java:48)
at javax.swing.ImageIcon$1.run(ImageIcon.java:70)
at javax.swing.ImageIcon$1.run(ImageIcon.java:67)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.swing.ImageIcon.<clinit>(ImageIcon.java:67)
at com.mathworks.mwswing.desk.Desktop.createContrastingIcon(Desktop.java:145)
at com.mathworks.mwswing.desk.Desktop.<clinit>(Desktop.java:129)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169)
at com.mathworks.jmi.OpaqueJavaInterface.findClass(OpaqueJavaInterface.java:470)
Fatal Error on startup: Failure loading desktop class
Версия jm - dev-java/sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.26, с флагами (X alsa nsplugin -jce -odbc)