blank screen on startup

When starting R2020a from my CentOS 8 machine, I get nothing but a blank screen. I see the splash screen, but a window then pops up (presumably the gui) and it's only white. When maximizing it looks like there's something there, but it looks transparent. It's using opengl to render. it is a gnome-desktop. I have seen hints that disabling some fancy desktop animations (via unity?) help, but I can't find out how to do that on CentOS 8 (might only be ubuntu?). I tried setting the AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit ENV variable, no change.

I can get the GUI to render via ssh, which means it's the desktop that is getting in the way somehow. Any other thoughts?

>uname -a
>Linux <servername> 4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Apr 9 13:49:54 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Looks like the route to solving your problem is in the FAQ: Click here for the relevant FAQ entry

[Michael Alvarez]

I dont see the solution. The option (matlab -nodesktop) permits run code but I need some toollbox.

[Image Analyst]

The solution was to call tech support. Did you do that? If not, why not?