VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 04 2010 - 08:37:54 CDT

Hi,
  Did you verify that the .vmdinit file in the installation
directory is readable by a normal user? You might also check
that you don't have an empty .vmdrc sitting around in your
home directory. If neither of those is the problem, send me
the 'ls -al' output on your installation directory and I'll have
a quick look.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 02:32:23AM -0500, Luis Guillermo Cota Preciado wrote:
> Hi,
> I followed the instructions within the README file, to no avail, trying to
> do a default installation. I had to -but of course!- use sudo in order to
> proceed without errors. However, I ended up with no permissions for the
> normal user, which I had to tweak by hand in order to get VMD running.
> However, somehow the otherwise usual "main" window (whatever its name is),
> the one for loading and displaying and all that, is absent. Just the
> terminal and the visualization area are present.
> What gives? Thanks. 

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