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From: Josh Vermaas (vermaas2_at_illinois.edu)
Date: Mon May 23 2016 - 16:37:38 CDT

What does the terminal say? Here is what it looks like for instance when
I start VMD:

Info) VMD for LINUXAMD64, version 1.9.2 (May 4, 2016)
Info) http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
Info) Email questions and bug reports to vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
Info) Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
Info) Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
Info) Multithreading available, 24 CPUs detected.
Info) Free system memory: 20156MB (50%)
Info) Creating CUDA device pool and initializing hardware...
Info) Detected 1 available CUDA accelerator:
Info) [0] GeForce GTX 980 16 SM_5.2 @ 1.22 GHz, 4.0GB RAM, KTO, AE2, ZCP
Info) Detected 1 available TachyonL/OptiX ray tracing accelerator
Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension: if incorrect display occurs
Warning) try disabling this X server option. Most OpenGL drivers
Warning) disable stereoscopic display when 'Composite' is enabled.
Info) OpenGL renderer: GeForce GTX 980/PCIe/SSE2
Info) Features: STENCIL MSAA(4) MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVFGS)
Info) Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
Info) Textures: 2-D (16384x16384), 3-D (2048x2048x2048), Multitexture (4)

Or is the terminal blank?
-Josh

On 05/23/2016 02:03 AM, Liviu Zarbo wrote:
> Hi, I installed vmd binaries on my ubuntu laptop and followed the
> instructions. But, whenever I type
> vmd file.pdb, I don't get the graphical interface. I'm not sure what's
> wrong since I get no error message.
>
> vmd, vmd -dispdev win, also give no graphical interface.
>
> I wonder if others had this problem.