Simulink windows appear in X11 context on Mac OS X

I'm currently running R200b student version on MAC OS 10.7.2. MATLAB has to run with a program called "X11". It seems okay until I started learning control system designing. All the .mdl files are opened in "X11" instead of MATLAB. Does anyone know how to run simulink in MATLAB?

Answer 1

[Ken Atwell]

X11 refers to the X Window System, which hails mostly from Unix systems and is available on Macs. MATLAB on the Intel Mac began life as a straight port of the X11 version for Linux, so what you are seeing is probably the expected behavior (depending on the version you are running, you left left off a character from "200b").

Newer releases of core MATLAB have become less reliant on X11, and X11 is no longer used in most MATLAB workflows. Simulink, on the other hand, still requires X11 as-of R2011b.

http://blogs.mathworks.com/desktop/2011/05/02/update-on-matlab-for-the-mac/

[Jun Ni]

I have 2008b version. So, I have to run Simulink through X11 from now on? But the command window looks so different from regular simulink worksheet and it doesn't have play or build buttons on it...

[Kaustubha Govind]

Jun: Unfortunately, it is true that the Simulink model window is indeed more simplistic than on Windows. You can still perform the same actions using the menus though. For example, Run, Pause, Stop are all available from the Simulation menu.