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From: BIN ZHANG (zhngbn_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed May 27 2009 - 16:36:07 CDT

Thanks a lot. It's working now. ;-)

Best,
Bin

On May 27, 2009, at 2:00 PM, John Stone wrote:

>
> 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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>
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> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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