Graphs display upside down

I am using matlab online, 2021b
All graphs display upside down, including numbers, axis, and toolbox
Changing the renderer causes the graph to rerender and fixes the issue for graphs currently plotted, such as
set(gcf,'renderer','painters')
set(gcf,'renderer','opengl')
But does not stop new graphs from being upside down again.

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I have a similar problem, sometimes graphs start being displayed upside down and mirrored (as in you picture) and, from then on, they keep being displayed in that way. If matlab is restarted things go back to normal, at least for some time.
This happens mostly when some special display windows are generated, such as the "Reinforcement Learning pisode Manager"
Using Matlab 2022b on Ubuntu 20.04

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Answers (3)

Joana Gomes
Joana Gomes on 14 Dec 2021
try using
set(gca,'YDir','reverse');
worked for me

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Setting YDir will not affect the direction that the text is displayed. The sample posted by the user has the text upside down.
figure(1)
plot(1:5)
figure(2)
plot(1:5)
set(gca, 'YDir', 'reverse')
Notice that the text stays upright in both cases.

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NICO
NICO ongeveer 24 uur ago
Hi,
If anyone else is still experiencing this problem, they can resolve it with this command.
set(0, 'DefaultFigureRenderer', 'painters')
MATLAB R2021a Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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