Comment 15 for bug 157289

J, it may be stupid for me to ask. But did you reboot after removing scim? This is one of the few times that one needs to reboot linux to get thing fixed. Maybe restarting X will work too but I never tried.

There are lots of jvm problem regarding Matlab. It may worth try changing to another jvm also

http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-1812J/index.html

Just curious, does idle have any problem in your case? Before I uninstalled scim, that bug (#12) is 100% repeatable in 9.04.