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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2006 - 13:56:52 CDT

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Stefan Gerlach wrote:

SG> Hi,
SG>
SG> After compiling the latest version 1.8.5 of VMD on SuSE 9.3 (x86_64) with :
SG> LINUXAMD64 MESA TK IMD TCL PTHREADS
SG> i miss the main menu.
SG> It does not appear on startup nor in the list of menus :
SG>
SG> vmd > menu list
SG> apbsrun contactmap multiseq namdenergy namdplot pmepot gofrgui irspecgui
SG> ramaplot rmsd rmsdtt saltbr sequence timeline volmap biocorelogin biocorechat
SG> biocorepubsync biocoreutil dataimport pdbtool stingtool textview autoionize
SG> solvate autopsf membrane molefacture mutator paratool autoimd imd namdgui
SG> qmtool navigate navfly cliptool clonerep colorscalebar vmdmovie palettetool
SG> viewmaster vdna tkcon
SG>
SG> Do i miss something?

yes. you need the FLTK library. all 'standard' menus
use the FLTK widget set and thus are missing in your binary.
you only have the Tk provided menus (from the plugins).

cheers,
   axel.

SG>
SG> Thanks in advance,
SG> Stefan Gerlach
SG>
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SG>
SG> Stefan Gerlach
SG> Universitätsstr. 10
SG> 78457 Konstanz e-Mail: stefan.gerlach_at_uni-konstanz.de
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SG>
SG> 

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