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From: Charles Schwieters (Charles.Schwieters_at_hec.utah.edu)
Date: Thu May 27 1999 - 16:03:58 CDT

The window is probably placed off the visible screen. [this is a bug.]
Try specifying the position using the -pos <x> <y> command line
option. If you have winlist functionality in your window manager, you
can find the display by looking for a window named ``vmd OpenGL
Display.''

Charles

>
> Hello,
>
> Having just completed the installation of VMD on my machine (an O2
> running 6.5.3), I find that when I type 'vmd' the winterm and menus
> appear, but no display window. I can load a molecule and the terminal
> acknowledges that it been loaded and I can modify the display by typing
> commands in the terminal, but no display of any kind, not even an empty
> display window; no display window at all!
>
> Also, how do I get VMD to use the local copy of the vmd_help.html file
> instead of the one at
> www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/. Using the internet version when I have a
> local copy seems unnecessary.
>
> I probably just missed something during the installation (using the
> configure script and 'make install') . Otherwise, brilliant program!
> 

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