Offscreen window stealing focus

In matlab2011b, setting:

set(0,'defaultFigureVisible','off')

reliably made figures not visible, and kept them from stealing focus.

I have recently switched to using MATLAB2015a, and I'm seeing a strange behavior. Even with defaultFigureVisible set to 'off', every time that a figure would be created, instead a small white box appears in the upper left hand side of my screen, and steals focus for MATLAB.

The name of this window is HG_Peer_OffScreenWindow. I can't figure out where it's coming from, or how to make it stop appearing.

I'm working remotely via x11 forwarding. Local machine OSX, remote machine linux.

Thanks.

[Bram Bamps]

I have exactly the same problem. Also working on a local OSX machine and remote linux machine.

A regular message that started to appear after the update to the newer matlab version is:

Undefined function 'rmiml.visibleInToolstrip' for input arguments of type 'char'.

Many thanks

[Daan Hubert]

Bram, Isaac, were you able to solve or work around this annoying issue?

In batch mode I always create figures using (Matlab R2013b) in invisible mode to save CPUtime needed to display the graphic. But this pop-up is destroying this workflow.

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[Daan Hubert]

Just figured out that changing windowmanager from twm to fluxbox resolved my issue.