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For some reason the icon for MATLAB (R2015b) no longer shows the familiar orange matlab surface icon, but rather reverts to the generic black box with exec under OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks). Any ideas how to get the correct icon back?
The generic icon shows with Command-Tab and in the Dock, but the correct icon is shown in Finder.
When I first installed MATLAB the first run (or few?) used the correct icon, but has since switched to the generic icon.
Any idea how to to get the nice MATLAB icon back?
You might want to make sure your app is correctly associated (for that you can use the free RCDefaultApp panel).
If you fancy changing icons, you can try the arguably pricey Candybar from Panic inc. which is excellent if you love playing with your icons, but that's all it does, so for 6 Starbuck's Coffee Latte you can do that :p
Please note that if you change an icon, you will probably have to restart the finder (and/or the Dock) for the change to be reflected (Logoff also works).
The Eject menu is part of the Menu Extras that are of the standard core service items for the Mac.
It is not normally enabled.
But one way of enabling it is to double click on the
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Eject.menu file.
The Eject menu is normally for your built in disc drive if you have one.
It may or may not work on external disc drive.
To remove the Eject Menu
Click and drag the Eject menu icon off the menu bar.
Once you start dragging the Eject icon, you can release the Apple/Command key.
Release the mouse button when the Eject menu no longer appears in the menu bar.
The Eject icon will disappear.
Best Answer
Go to info.plist, change LSUIElement value back to 0. This will fix the dock icon. This might introduce some other issues however (I don't use matlab too extensively), so if you experience any visual glitches it might be due to modifying the plist, not matlab itself.
I don't have other machines to verify, but I believe the "issue" you describe is not specific to your machine but is true for all matlab installations on osx, due to Matlab's weird startup sequence.
The reason why the first launch displays the icon is that the first launch actually launches an activator program, not matlab itself.
Moreover, even after tampering with the lsuielement to restore the dock icon, the alt-tab icon will still be the generic black-rectangle script icon (again due to the way matlab is packaged and launches)