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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 24 2002 - 11:09:51 CDT

Dear Jeroen,
  Do you have a .vmdrc file in your home directory? If you have
an empty .vmdrc file, this would cause the problem you're experiencing
with no menus coming up. If you have an empty .vmdrc file, delete it,
and your problem should go away. Alternately, try running the menu
commands in the VMD command window:
  menu main on
  menu graphics on
 
Do they work when you manually run the menu commands?
When you start in CAVE mode, be sure to use "vmd -dispdev caveforms" otherwise
you won't get any of the GUI menus at all.

Let us know if you need more help debugging this. Also, if you have
Linux-specific CAVE patches, please send them our way so we can integrate
them into VMD.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:31:16AM +0200, Jeroen Akershoek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm building the latest version (1.8a27) of VMD from CVS at the moment and
> have made some minor modifications to make it work on linux CAVElib.
> Everything seems to be working fine after a bit of work, only there's one
> thing missing: the menu. I can't get any of the menus up at all, also in
> normal (non-CAVE) mode, even though I have both TK and FLTK compiled in.
> The compiler gives no warnings or errors at all, VMD console says
> everything is fine. Anybody has an idea on how to fix this?
>
> My configure.options are
> LINUX OPENGL CAVE ACTC FLTK TK IMD TCL PYTHON PTHREADS
>
> I'm using python2.2, tcl/tk8.3, libftlk 1.0.11, actc 1.1 and the Xi
> Wildcat server (Summit 2.2) with a WC6210 card.
>
> Thanks
> ----------------------------------------------
> Jeroen Akershoek, VR Specialist
> SARA Computing and Network Services
> tel: +31 20 5923000 fax: +31 20 6683167
>
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> 

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