Synchronize matlab software personality settings across platforms?

You can synchronize the individual settings of each platform matlab software while logged into your account, such as synchronizing various plug-ins like vscode, matlab editor colors, fonts, etc. to ensure the same? I hope that future versions will support

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

No, that is not supported at this time.

You can look in

p = prefdir()

p = '/tmp/matlabpref'

ls(p)

inspectorProxyViewMapCache_en_US.mat  matlabPkey.p12   mldrivetripwireaccess.mlsettings  Simulink.mlsettings   symbolic_internal.mlsettings  VisibleSettings.json
MATLABDesktop.xml		      matlab.prf       parallel.mlsettings		 SLLibraryLinkageData  thisMatlab.pem		     WorkerPreviousMATLABLayout.xml
matlab.mlsettings		      migratePref.txt  shortcuts_2.xml			 sl_toolstrip_plugins  thisMatlabSSL.jks

with matlab.prf being the most-used one of those.

However: the preferences include references to directories that are definitely not going to be in the same place on different operating systems, and which might not be in the same place on different computers with the same operating system that you have access to. For example, your username might be different, or the administrators might have chosen different installation locations.

The Add-Ons are downloaded and stored in your directories; there is no public mechanism to automatically download them again (however, when you upgrade MATLAB versions, MATLAB offers to re-install what you already had installed, so MATLAB must have a way to figure it out and download.)

In order to synchronize between platforms, MATLAB would have to divide the preferences internally into host-specific, OS-specific, and "all-systems". It isn't quite as simple as "does it contain a directory name": for example key mappings are not entirely interchangable between MacOS and Windows .