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From: Adrian Koh (kohsj_at_ihpc.a-star.edu.sg)
Date: Thu Apr 14 2005 - 06:03:41 CDT

Hi,

Thank you very much for your replies. I've added the following lines in
"vmd.rc" in order to change the default directory:

# change default Home directory
cd /Nanowire Simulations/

and an error message appeared during startup saying:

wrong # args: should be "cd ?dirName"?

and the default directory remained as what it was previously. Where did
I go wrong?

Regards,
Adrian.

Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:

>On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Adrian Koh wrote:
>
>AK> Dear all,
>
>dear adrian,
>
>AK>
>AK> I'm trying, with much difficulties, to get through Chapter 12 of the
>AK> User Manual.
>AK>
>AK> I'm attempting to customize VMD to my preferred defaults like a "White"
>AK> background, "Orthographic" display, "VDW" graphic representation, and
>AK> setting the default directory to my own directory, in order to avoid the
>AK> tedious process of redirecting from the VMD directory every time I want
>AK> to open a file somewhere else.
>
>for most of this you need to set up a .vmdrc file in your home
>directory (or vmd.rc when using windows)
>
>so for background, orthographic you can see e.g.:
>http://www.theochem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~axel.kohlmeyer/cpmd-vmd/part1.html#chap3_sect1
>
>setting the 'home' directory can be easily done
>with adding a 'cd /my/home/directory' in the .vmdrc/vmd.rc file.
>
>now setting the default visualization is more tricky. you
>can of course hack the vmd source code and recompile. but
>there are also ways of hook into the process of loading
>a molecule. an example of how to do the latter is at
>
>http://www.theochem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~axel.kohlmeyer/cpmd-vmd/part7.html#chap9_sect2
>
>but note that this is some kind of a hack and will not
>work under all circumstances and especially pay attention
>to the warning.
>
>AK> Can any one explain simply how could this be done? Thank you very much :).
>
>i hope this is simple enough,
> axel.
>AK>
>AK>
>AK> Regards,
>AK> Adrian
>AK>
>
>
>