MATLAB: Doesn’t the splash screen on Linux show any text

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When launching MATLAB from some Linux distributions, there is no text displayed on the splash screen. However, MATLAB launches and works fine. The "ver" and "license" command displays the license number.
The splash screen looks as the image attached below.

Best Answer

The reason that no text is visible on the splash screen might be because your system is missing one of the fonts required by MATLAB for splash screen to display text. Some Linux distributions do not include any of the required fonts. 
To download these fonts that belong to xfs library, please refer to the Fedora docs (or similar links corresponsing to a particular Linux distribution),
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/12/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-x-fonts.html
Look under the "Tip" section in the above link and install the following required fonts:
"-*-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, 
-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, 
-*-arial-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, 
-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" 
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