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From: Gianluca Interlandi (gianluca_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 25 2010 - 20:02:55 CDT

You were right. It seems that this is the case with openSUSE 11.3 (and
probably earlier versions, too). So, I aliased it with

     alias vmd 'xterm -geometry 80x11-0-0 -e vmd &'

and now I get the same behavior as before!

Thanks,

      Gianluca

PS: In case anybody is installing openSUSE11.3 and has an NVIDIA card, you
should use NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.35.run and not the latest driver
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53.run because VMD (and probably other openGL
windows too) will cause your desktop to freeze for several seconds
whenever a windows is moved around.

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, John Stone wrote:

>
> Hi,
> We had to make these changes as a result of some Linux distributions
> that (for security reasons) prevent the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment
> variables from being inherited by sub-shells spawned through xterm and
> similar terminal programs. This is a problem for VMD as we currently
> link against a number of shared libraries (e.g. CUDA) that have to
> be included as part of the VMD installation so that VMD can still run
> even if the end-user doesn't otherwise have these libraries installed
> on their machine. For those that want VMD to start in a separate
> shell, you can simply alias 'vmd' to 'xterm -e /usr/local/bin/vmd &'
> or something like that.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:10:26PM -0700, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have started using VMD 1.8.7 openGL 32bit and I noticed that it no
>> longer opens an external terminal window, instead it uses the same
>> terminal from which it was started. I would prefer the old behavior. By
>> looking at the script in bin/vmd I see that the text at the very end is
>> commented out:
>>
>> # # if DISPLAY is set, spawn off a terminal, else use current terminal
>> # if ($?DISPLAY) then
>> # if ("$VMDWEBHELPER" == "1") then
>> ## exec $VMD_WINTERM -T "vmd console" $VMD_WINGEOM $VMD_WINOPTS \
>> ## "$MASTERVMDDIR/$execname" $*
>> # exec $VMD_WINTERM -T "vmd console" $VMD_WINGEOM $VMD_WINOPTS \
>> # "env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH $MASTERVMDDIR/$execname" $*
>> # else
>> ## exec $VMD_WINTERM -T "vmd console" $VMD_WINGEOM $VMD_WINOPTS \
>> ## "$MASTERVMDDIR/$execname" $* &
>> # exec $VMD_WINTERM -T "vmd console" $VMD_WINGEOM $VMD_WINOPTS \
>> # "env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH $MASTERVMDDIR/$execname" $*
>> &
>> # endif
>> # else
>> $vmdprefixcmd "$MASTERVMDDIR/$execname" $*
>> # endif
>>
>> If I uncomment it, except the ##, I get the old window behavior back. Why
>> did the developers decide to hide this part of the script?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gianluca
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------
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>> +1 (206) 685 4435
>> http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/
>>
>> Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
>> at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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