MATLAB and X in Linux

I've been having some issues with MATLAB and fonts recently. Basically, MATLAB shows me three different sets of fonts: firstly, when I enter

uisetfont

into the command line, I get a great huge list of fonts which are displayed correctly on the dialog and which I know to be installed on my computer. Secondly, when I type

listfonts

I get a second list of fonts, several of which I know are not installed on my system, such as Helvetica. Thirdly, when I'm working with figures, only a monospaced font (Courier, I believe) is being shown for all of the text (axis labels, title, etc), no matter what the font setting is for the label. I'm not sure why this is happening, but it would be great if I could use all of the fonts that are available in uisetfont for my figures. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[Daniel Shub]

This is a duplicate of http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/answers/1238-font-size-changes-in-figures

[Walter Roberson]

Possibly the same, possibly not. It could also have to do with whether fonts are being served locally or from the remote host.

Answer 1

[Miles]

Daniel, thank you for posting your prior solution. It worked perfectly for me. Here's the link to the answer. I also updated the MATLAB article on the ArchWiki to include this information.

http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/answers/1238#answer_39697