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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed May 27 2009 - 16:00:55 CDT

Bin,
  I think this indicates that either you don't have a .vmdrc in your
VMD installation directory, or there's a file permissions issue, or you
have an empty .vmdrc in your home directory. One of those is the likely
reason you're not getting the main menu on startup.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:49:40PM -0700, BIN ZHANG wrote:
> Hm, it does appear. That's cool.
>
> Is it possible to make it default?
>
> Thanks,
> Bin
>
> On May 27, 2009, at 1:30 PM, John Stone wrote:
>
> >
> >Hi,
> > What happens if you type the command "menu main on" in
> >the VMD text console? Does the main menu appear then?
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:17:40PM -0700, BIN ZHANG wrote:
> >>Dear All:
> >>
> >>I was having problem to compile VMD 1.8.6 on a linux machine. Using
> >>the following configure line :
> >>
> >>./configure LINUXAMD64 OPENGL FLTK TK SILENT TCL PTHREADS
> >>
> >>I was able to get a binary. However, the main menu is missing here. I
> >>saw from the list that this could be cause by missing FLTK library. (
> >>http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/8023.html ).
> >>But I
> >>have no idea how to fix this. (And I did include FLTK for
> >>configure).
> >>Also, the officially distributed 1.8.6 binary would give the same
> >>problem.
> >>
> >>Any suggestion is appreciated .
> >>
> >>Best,
> >>Bin
> >>
> >
> >--
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> >Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
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NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078