Figure Toolbar is flickering

When I plot a figure, the toolbar visibility is constantly flickering on and off when I move my mouse around, making it very difficult to click anything. I took a video but am unsure how to share it in this question. This is a relatively recent issue, I have been using 2023b for a while now and I only noticed this happening today. Does this seem like a bug in MATLAB or would you suspect this has more to do with my system graphics settings? Have you come across this issue before? Thank you in advance for any help.

Answer 1

[Divyanshu]

Hi Lowell,

It is the expected behaviour of toolbar, it becomes visible when you hover over the axes of the figure else it disappears.

You can read the following documentation for more details about the expected behaviour of the toolbar:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2023b/matlab/ref/matlab.graphics.axis.axes-properties.html#budumk7-Toolbar

Moreover, you can modify the visibility of the toolbar, please refer the following documentation for further details:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2023b/matlab/ref/matlab.graphics.controls.axestoolbar-properties.html#mw_0f9f0dfb-5890-4e26-bd38-0f5561add259

[Lowell Bartlett]

Thanks for replying,

It is not the expected behavior. I have been using MATLAB for nearly a decade and this is a very new issue. It flickers more times per second than I am able to count and it makes the buttons unclickable when it happens.

[Divyanshu]

Thanks for clarifying.

I tried reproducing the issue in R2023b but it is behaving normally. Can you please share the reproduction steps of the issue you are facing?

[Lowell Bartlett]

Unfortunately there isn't a clear pattern of when this issue is occurring. It appeared seemingly out of nowhere. I was trying to fix a different issue I was having with vector graphics and ran set(gcf, 'Renderer', 'painters'), and now it isn't flickering anymore so I suppose I'll close the issue.