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From: Mahmood Naderan (mahmood.nt_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2018 - 11:55:43 CST

So, I downloaded the binary file and now I can see the main window.
Thank you very much
Regards,
Mahmood

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:29 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> Axel is correct, it looks to me like you have compiled VMD from source
> but that you did not enable the GUI-related option flag (FLTK), so you
> have produced a VMD binary that won't be useful except in a batch mode
> without interactive display (e.g. vmd -dispdev openglpbuffer).
> As Axel already stated, normal VMD builds are done with many more options.
>
> Even the most minimal interactive VMD build should have at least these options
> enabled if you want to use the GUI:
> LINUXAMD64 OPENGL OPENGLPBUFFER FLTK TK ACTC COLVARS TCL PTHREADS
>
> From that list you could live without ACTC and perhaps COLVARS, and PTHREADS,
> but you're starting to cut into the bone at that point and you're actually
> removing significant program features and optimizations.
>
> Best,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>