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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2008 - 14:34:15 CDT

Roman,
  There's no way to disable the auto-rotate feature of VMD
at present, but it's easy to avoid accidentally auto-rotating,
simply be sure to hold the mouse still before you release the
mouse button when rotating. It's usually not an issue at all
for small molecules, but when working with very large structures
(or a slow graphics card) it is indeed frequently the case that
the display is slightly behind the mouse interaction. The slower
the display update rate, the more certain you have to be to hold
the mouse still before releasing the button. Since it's probably
an easy thing to add, I could see about adding a mouse command to
disable the autorotate behavior entirely as you request.

Cheers,
  John

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:08:31PM -0400, Roman Petrenko wrote:
> Dear all,
> when you rotate a structure in VMD, it is very often (almost every
> time) you stop rotating, but the program turns on automatic rotations.
> I have found it as the most inconvenient feature of the VMD.
> Please, tell me how to turn it off forever!
> --
> Roman Petrenko.
> Physics Department
> University of Cincinnati 

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