From: Cesar Luis Avila (cavila_at_fbqf.unt.edu.ar)
Date: Wed Apr 18 2007 - 13:23:21 CDT

John,
I am aware of that, and indeed I have used vmd in such a way several times.
My question was because I thoght that perhaps, he wanted to start the
GUI from a remote connection.
Regards
Cesar

John Stone escribió:
> Cesar,
> Many people actually run VMD without graphics as a means of performing
> various analyses without having to download huge trajectory files to their
> local workstation. Similarly, some people run tens or hundreds of independent
> copies of VMD at a time on clusters as a means of accelerating some of
> the bioinformatics functions provided by multiseq. These are just a few
> examples, but the point is that you can actually do various things with
> VMD even without a graphical interface. You can do this by starting VMD
> with the command:
> vmd -dispdev text
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:54:40PM -0300, Cesar Luis Avila wrote:
>
>> Dear lan,
>> you are installing VMD on a cluster and not on your personal
>> workstation. What kind of task are you planning to accomplish?
>>
>> lanhua escribi¨®:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I downloaded the linux version of 1.8.6, LINUX OpenGL and followed the instruction to install vmd in the linux cluster of our lab. But the vmd can't start up after installation. I don't know what's wrong, and also I don't know what OpenGL is.
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> Lan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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