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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 14 2005 - 09:46:01 CDT
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Adrian,
Whenever you have directories with spaces in them, you need to quote
the directory name to prevent the shell from misinterpreting the name,
the same goes if you were in a command line shell window.
John
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 07:03:41PM +0800, Adrian Koh wrote:
> 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>
> >
> >
> >
>
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