[xmonad] Re: Issue 408 in xmonad: WM_TAKE_FOCUS problem when using matlab gui for Xmonad 0.9.1, cpu amd64, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS system

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Comment #2 on issue 408 by daniel.wagner: WM_TAKE_FOCUS problem when using  
matlab gui for Xmonad 0.9.1, cpu amd64, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS system
http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=408

> 4. This is the most suprising part. If I use command "export  
> MATLAB_JAVA=~/aaaaaaaaaa && matlab" to start matlab, where "~/aaaaaaaaaa"  
> is a nonexisting directory, of course I cannot get a desktop because it  
> cannot find any java. But the gui now works perfectly.

I believe Matlab ships with its own copy of the jvm, so perhaps in this  
situation it is defaulting to its own Java installation. It might be worth  
trying to find this and identify which version it is.