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From: Osmany guirola Cruz (osmany.guirola_at_cigb.edu.cu)
Date: Tue May 23 2006 - 10:10:47 CDT

Hi
 i put this in my .vmdrc file

display projection Orthographic
display depthcue on
display cuemode Linear

and works perfectly but the main window doesn't appear.(i have Display
window and the console) if i delete de .vmdrc file and launch vme i get
the three windows (xterm Display and main)
what i am doing wrong?

Osmany

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 10:26 -0400, Ch. Fufezan wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> thanks for you help! I installed 1.8.4 and it works indeed.
> Unfortunately by using the shell command "vmd -m pdbs/*.pdb",
> the .vmdrc is executed after the pdbs are loaded, hence the mol
> default entry only effects newly loaded pdbs. Again, I can imagine
> writing a little script that loads all my pdb files but then the
> beauty of "vmd -m *.pdb" is gone.
>
> Is there maybe a way around this?
>
> cheers,
>
> Christian
>
> On May 23, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 22 May 2006, Christian Fufezan wrote:
> >
> > CF> Hello,
> > CF>
> > CF> is it possible to change the default settings for the
> > CF> drawing and coloring method ?
> >
> > christian,
> >
> > as of version 1.8.4 VMD supports a 'mol default' command,
> > so that you can change default visualization properties
> > in your .vmdrc file. if you are locked into using some older
> > version, you may want to check out the hack at:
> >
> > http://www.theochem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~axel.kohlmeyer/cpmd-vmd/
> > part7.html#chap9_sect2
> >
> > CF>
> > CF> I have a bunch of pdb files that are loaded via vmd -m
> > CF> *.pdb and I would like to have them displayed as cpk using
> > CF> coloring method beta. I know this can be done via a little
> > CF> tcl script, looping over [molinfo num], but I think
> > CF> changing the default settings would be more elegant.
> >
> > indeed.
> >
> > regards,
> > axel.
> >
> > CF>
> > CF> Thanks for your help
> > CF>
> > CF> Christian
> > CF>
> >
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> >
>