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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 20 2005 - 15:10:10 CDT

Stephen,
  What do you get if you diff the startup scripts:
diff /home/computation/CompChem/vmd-1.8.4a20/bin/vmd /home/computation/CompChem/vmd-1.8.4a22/bin/vmd

Bounce me the output of that command.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:05:26PM -0400, Stephen P. Molar, Ph.D. wrote:
> John:
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> All that I did for the new version was change one digit in the path in the KDE
> menu item; that is I changed it from
>
> '/home/computation/CompChem/vmd-1.8.4a20/bin/vmd'
>
> to
>
> '/home/computation/CompChem/vmd-1.8.4a22/bin/vmd'
>
> and vmd failed to open. If I change the one digit back vmd opens.
>
> On impulse, I just created a new menu item for a22. It doesn't work either.
> Yet the origional menu item, for a20, works.
>
> Very strange.
>
> This is hardly critical, as far as my using the new version is concerned. I
> can always open it in a console.
>
> On Thursday October 20, 2005 3:14 pm, John Stone wrote:
> > Stephen,
> > There shouldn't be any difference at all between a20 and a22 as far as
> > startup scripts go. I'd suggest double-checking your KDE menu item and
> > make sure there's nothing unusual going on there. If it starts when you
> > call the startup script manually, then it may be something KDE-specific
> > that is giving you trouble.
> >
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:07:53PM -0400, Stephen P. Molar, Ph.D. wrote:
> > > I have been starting v1.8.4a20 in SuSE9.3/KDE3.5b2 as a menu item in the
> > > KDE Menu.
> > >
> > > I just installled v1.8.4a22 in a differend directory, but it will not
> > > start in the same fashion as the previous version. I can start a22 by
> > > executing the /bin/vmd script in a console.
> > > --
> > > Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set
> > > Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant
> > > http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry
>
> --
> Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set
> Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant
> http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry 

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