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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2007 - 15:34:55 CDT

Hi,
  I'm CCing VMD-L so others that may be interested will benefit from
this information as well. There are two issues to be aware of
with running VMD in text mode on MacOS X (with the standard OSX build of VMD):
  1) In order to run VMD in text mode, you'll need to execute the
     startup.command script, like this (you'll need to use the
     full path to the script):
     /path/to/.../VMD\ 1.8.6.app/Contents/MacOS/startup.command -dispdev text
    
  2) When running the normal MacOS X builds of VMD, the low-level MacOS X
     libraries we link against want to be able to make a connection to the
     windowing system even when we're running in non-graphical mode, for
     whatever reason. This means that the user running the text mode version
     has to be logged into the console, otherwise you'll get a complaint
     from the MacOS X runtime system and it'll terminate the program.

  3) If you want something that's independent of the windowing system,
     for use on a cluster or something similar, you can get this by compiling
     VMD from source more like you would for a Linux machine. Let me
     know if you need help with this.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:20:03AM +0200, Arkin wrote:
> Dear Dr Stone,
>
> We are hoping to use vmd in batch mode using the -dispdev text option
> on our macs. I noticed that you said that it was possible but it
> requires a special startup script (an e-mail that appeared on the
> news group a while back). Would it be possible to get the particular
> startup script.
>
> Keep up the good work,
> Shy
>
>
>
> - = - = - = - = - = - = - = -
> Isaiah (Shy) Arkin
> Professor of Structural Biology
> The Alexander Silberman
> Institute of Life Sciences
> Department of Biological Chemistry
> The Hebrew University, Givat-Ram
> Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
> Tel/Fax: +972-(0)2-6584329
> Email: arkin_at_cc.huji.ac.il
> membranelab.huji.ac.il
>
>
> 

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