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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 14 2010 - 13:03:43 CDT

Raman,
  Did you inspect your Terminal.app settings? See this
VMD thread for info on a possible solution if Terminal.app
got displaced as the default application for opening the VMD startup script:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/15370.html

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:48:24PM -0400, Raman Parkesh wrote:
> Hi John
> When I click the icon no response. It looks it is going to start and then I don't see anything running. I didn't installed any application recently that is why I am bit surprised. Any solution for this?
> Thanks
> Raman
> ________________________________________
> From: John Stone [johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 1:35 PM
> To: Raman Parkesh
> Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: Re:vmd_start_problem_in_mac OSX
>
> Hi,
> It sounds to me like something is amiss with your Terminal.app
> settings. This is what usually creates problems with clicking the
> VMD icon to start it. What occurs when you click the program icon?
> No response? Perhaps something else has become the default application
> for running .command files? Did you install a new application recently?
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:27:26PM -0400, Raman Parkesh wrote:
> > HI
> > I was running the vmd 1.8.7 in mac osx (10.6.4) but suddenly last few days I am not able to start the program from the icon in Application folder. I can start it from accessing the contents of vmd directory and then double clicking the vmd launcher. I was wondering if it is problem with X11 and do I need to reinstall the X11 or if any one has other suggestion that would be really great.
> >
> > Regards
> > Raman
>
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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