From: Yasaman Ghadarghadr (y.ghadarghadr_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 16 2015 - 13:08:30 CDT

Dear John,

Thank you so much. It worked just fine.

Regards,

Yasaman

*Yasaman GhadarPostdoctoral Research Associate Chemistry
DepartmentWashington State UniversityPullman, WA, 99164*

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 7:57 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> The described issue affects some users with certain revs of
> MacOS X Yosemite on some (but not all) Macs. I have posted a
> couple of times about the following workaround:
>
> A short-term workaround for the MacOS X Yosemite 10.10.x update problems
> that
> have recently cropped up on certain varieties of Mac laptops.
>
> The solution is to set an environment variable to tell VMD not to
> use the MacOS-provided file browser window, and to instead use the
> FLTK-based file chooser. This is done by setting the environment variable
> "VMDFILECHOOSER" to the value "FLTK". This can be done in VMD itself
> in the text console, in the user's .vmdrc file, in the global .vmdrc
> file in the VMD.app bundle, or by setting the environment variable in the
> user's Unix shell .bashrc, etc.
>
> To set the variable in VMD or .vmdrc etc, run this command:
> set env(VMDFILECHOOSER) FLTK
>
> To set the variable in bash, add this to .bashrc etc:
> VMDFILECHOOSER=FLTK
> export VMDFILECHOOSER
>
> After the environment variable is set, VMD will use the alternative
> file selector window in the graphical interface, and this should prevent
> the problems you've been encountering.
>
> Let me know if the workaround is successful for you.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:14:31PM -0700, Yasaman Ghadarghadr wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have encountered the same problem as stated in
> > [1]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/24265.htmlÂ
> and
> > have followed the discussion however I have not found any solution. I
> was
> > wondering if the solution has ever been posted?
> >
> > My Mac-OS version is 10.10.4.
> >
> > Thank you for your time,
> >
> > -Yasaman
> >
> > Yasaman Ghadar
> > Postdoctoral Research Associate
> > Chemistry Department
> > Washington State University
> > Pullman, WA, 99164
> >
> > References
> >
> > Visible links
> > 1. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/24265.html
>
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