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From: Josh Vermaas (vermaas2_at_illinois.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 12 2015 - 08:54:41 CDT

I've had this problem. csh/sh is a red herring here. The real problem
had to do with system fltk versions fighting with one another,
particularly when the installed version didn't match the version it was
compiled with. Or was it Tk? Perhaps someone else has also encountered
this behavior, and remembers with greater detail what happened.

-Josh Vermaas

On 08/12/2015 02:49 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Hello:
>
> in relation to
>
> at this point it is difficult to tell apart which is a bug or a
> feature. there are subtle differences between csh and tcsh and some
> what argue that both are equally broken. i am not going down that
> rabbit hole, but very obviously the script has only seen limited
> testing on a "real" csh.
>
> i also would like to point out another option: use the /bin/sh
> compatible version of the launcher script. the bourne shell on ubuntu
> is very standard conforming and thus chances are that it has less of
> an issue...
>
> axel.
>
>
>
> I am observing with vmd 1.9.2. that on Debian GNU Linux amd64
> wheezy/gnome, fully updated, in the vmd script (csh as indicated below)
>
> #!/bin/csh
> set defaultvmddir="/usr/local/lib/vmd"
> set vmdbasename=vmd
> #!/bin/csh -f
> ## In case the installation didn't add these (which means you didn't
> # do the 'configure', here's the default settings:
> #set defaultvmddir=/usr/local/lib/vmd
> #set vmdbasename=vmd
>
>
>
> I had to comment out as follows:
>
> # detect if we have rlwrap available to have commandline editing
> set vmdprefixcmd=""
> if (("${ARCH}" == "LINUX") || ("${ARCH}" == "LINUXAMD64")) then
> # set rlwrap=`which rlwrap`
> # if ( -x "$rlwrap" ) then
> # if ( -f ${MASTERVMDDIR}/vmd_completion.dat ) then
> # set vmdprefixcmd="rlwrap -C vmd -c -b(){}[],&^%#;|\\ -f
> ${MASTERVMDDIR}/vmd_completion.dat "
> # else
> # set vmdprefixcmd="rlwrap -C vmd -c -b(){}[],&^%#;|\\ "
> # endif
> # endif
> # endif
>
>
> otherwise no match for rlwrap, although this is installed, and vmd is
> not launched.
>
> A consequence is that, with ffTK, the section "Assign Missing Params
> by Analogy" does not work properly: no window is opened below the line for
>
> Type Epsilon Rmin/2 Epsilon,1-4 Rmin/2,1-4
>
> so that no replacement of params can be carried out.
>
> .........................
>
> In contrast, no such problems with Debian amd64 jessy/Xfce: rlwap does
> work and the above-said window allows to see the params.
>
>
> So, the comparison is not straightforward and, to me, gnome is giving
> a lot of other problems that Xfce does not.
>
> Thanks for advice as to fixing on wheezy/gnome
>
> francesco pietra
>
>