From: andrea spitaleri (spitaleri.andrea_at_hsr.it)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2008 - 02:54:15 CDT

Hi,
both solutions work perfectly!
thanks

andrea

John Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> Try setting the environment variable VMDSCRSIZE to "512 512" and
> see if that's a more appropriate default window size for your laptop.
> See the User's Guide for more information on adjusting the default
> window position and size on Unix.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:33:24PM +0200, andrea spitaleri wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> this is a very easy question. I noticed that in my laptop bearing nvidia 8600 gsm (1280x800)
>> "vmd-windows" behaves differently depending on the SO. Under windows, the windows are okay whereas
>> under Linux when I start vmd, it opens with huge "OpenGL display" and "main window" taking the whole
>> screen. I need every time to resize it in order to work.
>> My xorg.conf is set to use 1280x800 resolution and from the log it is okay. I encountered similar
>> problem with gtk program (as gimp) but I overtaken installing gtk-qt engine (i am using slackware
>> with kde).
>> any help is very appreciated
>>
>> thanks in advance
>>
>> andrea
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Andrea Spitaleri PhD
Dulbecco Telethon Institute
c/o DIBIT Scientific Institute
Biomolecular NMR, 1B4
Via Olgettina 58
20132 Milano (Italy)
http://biomolecularnmr.ihsr.dom/
Tel: 0039-0226434348/5622/3497/4922
Fax: 0039-0226434153
-------------------------------
********************************************************************
Sostieni la ricerca del San Raffaele con il 5permille!
E' SEMPLICE E NON COSTA NULLA.
Basta indicare nell'apposito riquadro della dichiarazione dei
redditi ("Finanziamento agli enti della ricerca sanitaria") 
il codice fiscale della 
Fondazione Centro S. Raffaele del Monte Tabor:
03 06 42 80 153 e ricordarsi di firmare.
Se vuoi saperne di piu' scrivi a 5permille_at_hsr.it o vai sul sito
www.5xmille.org