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From: Peter Freddolino (petefred_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2006 - 10:08:49 CST

Hi Margaret,
please try typing
menu main on
in the console after startup. If this brings up the main menu, you
should check your .vmdrc file (and try moving it to see if there's
something in there tweaking normal startup).
Peter

Margaret S. Cheung wrote:
> Thank you for the email.
> Somehow only the graphic and the text console terminal showed up; the
> menu screen is nowhere in sight, when launching vmd as a user.
> Please help.
> Thank you.
> Sincerely,
> Margaret
>
> Peter Freddolino wrote:
>> As a start, you might to try running as the logged in user (rather than
>> root).
>> Peter
>>
>> Margaret S. Cheung wrote:
>>
>>> Dear VMD developers,
>>>
>>> I am installing VMD 1.8.5 linux OpenGL to Fedora Core 5.
>>> After I did "configure" and then "src/make install", the vmd did not
>>> give me error messages.
>>> However, when I execute /usr/bin/vmd, then it flashed on the screen.
>>> The terminal showed a message like
>>>
>>> root_at_leela src]# Warning: Tried to connect to session manager,
>>> Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
>>> specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
>>>
>>> I wonder if you can help me how to fix this. Thank you very much.
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Margaret
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>