Program won't load through KDE icon

Question

So I can load the program through the terminal by running the application as

sh /path/to/folder/bin/program

but when I'm trying to make a selectable icon through KDE Menu Editor I get the splash icon for the program but it doesn't load. I can't figure out why this is happening.

I even tried writing a script that runs the program and having KDE Menu Editor point to this script instead as

/path/to/script

and that doesn't work either. I'm extremely lost. I just get the splash screen and the bouncing icon, and then it hangs.

Why will it run fine through the terminal and not through kde?

FIXED Program was MATLAB and the solution was to use an environment

env -u _JAVA_OPTIONS /home/steven/MATLAB/bin/matlab -desktop -nosplash

Can you check using ps if your program is indeed launched or not? — Stark07, Nov 19 '14 at 06:04
ps shows it when I launch through the terminal, but not through kde. Same with top. — MaybeALlama, Nov 19 '14 at 06:32
Besides that that crashes (don't feel like bothering with fixing it), would this show anything different than ps and top mid launching? I can't see it in ps or top even while the splash screen is showing. — MaybeALlama, Nov 19 '14 at 07:40
It was MATLAB. I forgot that I solved this. Thanks for reminding me. I'll mark it as solved — MaybeALlama, Feb 10 '15 at 10:17

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '15 at 10:17

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Solution was to use the environment option

env -u _JAVA_OPTIONS /home/steven/MATLAB/bin/matlab -desktop -nosplash

answered Feb 10 '15 at 10:17

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