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.vmd_init File

     

This file is used to define several configuration variables which must be set before several key objects (e.g., the display device) can be created. (This is actually a limitation of the VMD implementation -- future versions will not use this file.) Thus this is the first file read by VMD; before even the vmdinit.tcl file. VMD searches for this file in three locations; $VMDDIR/.vmd_init, $HOME/.vmd_init, and ./.vmd_init. Each copy of the file found will be read in and processed in that order. This allows the administrator to establish a complete set of default values for all users, and then for each user to selectively change the settings required without having to set ALL parameters.

The lines in the initialization file should be either blank lines, comment lines (beginning with the # character), or parameter setting lines of the form

 
      <keyword> = <value>
with any amount of whitespace allowed before and after the equal sign. The possible keywords that may be entered here are:

Here is an example of an initialization file:

display = win
title = on
scrheight = 6.0
scrdist = -2.0
scrpos  = 596 190
scrsize = 669 834


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Justin Gullingsrud
Tue Apr 6 09:22:39 CDT 1999