How to get rid of the hanging popup display in debug mode?

Hi all,

One of the frustrations I have sometimes had with Matlab is the fact that while it is convenient to be able to see the contents of various variables in debug mode by passing the mouse over their names, sometimes the popups just don't go away. This happens especially when the variable has is a very long vector of numbers.

It can be so frustrating that even if one manages to exit the debug mode, the popup may remain, virtually covering the screen almost entirely and preventing from doing something else. What's more, sometimes this happens even by accident. i.e. you intentionally hover the mouse in the wrong place.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Which operating system and version of MATLAB are you using? This problem is most often reported against Linux, and usually the cure on Linux is to turn off Unity. However, some people have reported on Linux that turning off Unity was not sufficient for them.

[Patrick Mboma]

I am currently using Windows 10 and the version of matlab I was using is 2013b. But I have experienced the same problem with other versions of Windows before. In the end I just had to kill matlab, thereby losing whatever I had done. I think the problem is most likely to occur when using row vectors rather than column vectors.