[Chimera-users] copy cmd in nogui script

[Elaine Meng]

Hi James,
In general you can run chimera in nogui mode.  However, currently  
there are a few things that can only be done in the GUI mode - I am  
told this includes any image saving or exporting the scene (povray,  
renderman, OBJ, VRML, X3D).  Sorry about that,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                          meng at cgl.ucsf.edu
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
                      http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html




On Jul 29, 2008, at 9:00 AM, James A. Cleland wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone was able to run chimera ‘headless’ using – 
> nogui. I would like to be able to run the program from a script and  
> without an X server, or against Xvfb or equivalent if necessary. My  
> command line is
>
>  /var/lib/chimera/bin/chimera --nogui --silent --script <scriptname>
>
>  The script that I run sets the window size, element colors,  
> rotates the image, and then does a copy file to save a ray traced  
> PNG file. I have run this without –nogui and accepted the POV Ray  
> license agreement. Adding –nogui results in the following output
>
>  Error while processing <scriptname>:
>
> AttributeError: '_chimera.NoGuiViewer' object has no attribute  
> 'x3dWrite'
>
> (see reply log for Python traceback info)
>
> Parse error at line 1:
>
>  no element found
>
>  My chimera version is “chimera production version 1 build 2540  
> 2008/07/09”. This is running on a linux machine, 2.6 kernel. Any  
> suggestions you have would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> James
>
>