how to associate MATLAB files in Linux

I am using MATLAB R2011b in Ubuntu 12.04. By default MATLAB files are not associated with it. When I click the files, it was opened in the text editors. Each time i have to open the MATLAB and then i need to use file->open to view any files. How to associate the m and mdl files to MATLAB.?

Thanks in advance.

regards,

Rajasekaran V.

[Walter Roberson]

By analogy to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=51071 ?

Answer 1

[Mark]

For Ubuntu 16.04 this is different so.

What worked for me is appending %F to the end of Exec=some/path which is in my matlab.desktop file.

Locate the matlab.desktop file its either in

~/.local/share/applications

or

~/usr/share/applications

I found the solution here Also if you don't have a matlab.desktop file then you may want to create one link to some relevant help to create launcher icon

[Jon Wittmer]

This answer is mostly correct, however, it should be noted that the second directory should be

/usr/share/applications

and not

~/usr/share/applications

as the "~" in front makes the path relative to the users home directory.

This is equivalent to:

/home/my_username/usr/share/applications

The first directory is correct.