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From: Ajasja Ljubetič (ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 09 2010 - 09:12:05 CDT

Thank you. I was having trouble finding this in the documentation as I did
not know the right keywords "VMD title startup". I was looking under
"startup animation":)

Best regards,
Ajasja

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 15:37, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 14:18 +0200, Ajasja Ljubetič wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> >
> > is there a way to turn off the initial animation (The rotating VMD
>
> you can set the environment variable VMDTITLE to off.
>
> > letters). I sometimes start VMD without loading a pdb for a long time
> > and during this time the animation is eating a lot of cpu time. I have
> > removed "rock y by 1" from my vmd.rc.
> >
> >
> > Also the command "menu tkcon on" seems to have no effect if placed in
> > the .rc file.
>
> that is because the .rc file is processed before all
> plugins are initialized (so that you can override
> installed plugins with your own test version).
>
> just use:
>
> after idle {
> menu tkcon on
> }
>
> instead and you should be fine.
>
> cheers,
> axel.
>
> >
> >
> > The problem is present on Win7_64 an WinXP_32.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ajasja
>
> --
> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com
> http://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey/
>
> Institute for Computational Molecular Science
> Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.
>
>