Matlab 7.5 GUI Slow Under Mac OS X

I know it’s almost common sense, but today I had to refix the slow GUI for Matlab yet another time. As the information seems to start vanishing from the web, I want to perpetuate it here.

Go into directory /Applications/MATLAB_R2007b/bin/maci (or wherever your installation resides) and create a file called java.opts with the following content.

-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true

Cheers,
iss