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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 27 2005 - 13:43:42 CDT

Terry,
  On the systems I've used like this, they typically either use a
wireless keyboard+mouse, joystick, or remotely control it with a
network attached tracker/spaceball whatever, with something like VRPN.
I suppose the method that would be appropriate depends greatly on what
your setup looks like and what you plan to do with it.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
  
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:26:10PM +0000, Terry Jordan wrote:
> That worked. But I have another slight problem. There seems to be no way
> of controlling (zooming, rotating, translating) the molecule from the
> remote machine (the one with just the GUI). Is there anyway to do that?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> To: Terry Jordan <tejj_at_hotmail.com>
> CC: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: Does Vmd support GUI and rendering separate
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:09:00 -0500
>
>
> Hi,
> If you use 'setenv VMDGDISPLAY :0.0' and 'setenv DISPLAY remote:0.0'
> you can do the opposite (send the GUI to a remote machine, run OpenGL
> on the local machine). You wouldn't want to send the graphics to the
> remote machine, as that's the slowest method. It's far better to send
> the GUI to the remote machine and run the graphics locally. While you
> can do it the other way, you'll very quickly discover that the graphics
> load will eat your network for breakfast if you do it that way.
> Let us know if you need more help getting this running.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:26:06PM +0000, Terry Jordan wrote:
> > I wanted to find out if I can pipe the rendered data to a remote machine
> > and keeping the gui on the local machine? This would give functionality
> > similar to the geowall. One machine controls the other machine which
> > drives 2 projectors in passive stereo. I can run the local app in
> passive
> > stereo and it works fine but I am not sure if this can be done as I
> > described. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
>
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NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078