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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>/var/lib/chimera/bin/chimera
--nogui --silent --script <scriptname><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>Error while processing <scriptname>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>AttributeError:
'_chimera.NoGuiViewer' object has no attribute 'x3dWrite'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>(see reply log for Python
traceback info)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>Parse error at line 1:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'> no element found<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>James<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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