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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2014 - 09:14:52 CST

Hi,
  This sounds like some kind of video driver issue on the Windows
machine. What video chipset and driver are you using on the
Windows computer? What startup messages does VMD pring in the
text console when you first run it? There are a number of OpenGL
messages which should be helpful for solving cases like this one.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 01:04:58PM +0000, Kraemer, Tobias wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>
>
>
>
> I have a question regarding displaying colors. I make the following
> observation which rather puzzles me.
>
> When loading a VMD visualisation state from the NCIPLOT program (in which
> colours are mapped onto
>
> Reduced gradient surfaces to indicate specific non-covalent interactions)
> from my desktop machine (Windows),
>
> In fact no colours are being displayed. However, if I use my laptop
> (Macbook), it all works fine and colours are
>
> Displayed in the expected way. Now, I presume this has something to do
> with some settings and variables,
>
> But I don't know enough about this, so I wondered if somebody could give
> me some advice.
>
> In both cases I am connecting remotely to a supercomputer which has VMD
> installed, for my desktop machine
>
> I am using xming as X window server, while on my macbook I am running
> xquartz. Both times I am opening the
>
> Same .vmd script to get the visualisation state.
>
>
>
> Can anyone give me some clue what I would need to change so that I can use
> my desktop machine and get the
>
> Same results?
>
>
>
> Your help is much appreciated.
>
>
>
> Best
>
>
>
> Tobias
>
>
>
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