[Chimera-users] Keep path when opening chimera from command line

[Eric Pettersen]

> On Oct 30, 2015, at 9:47 AM, Eiros Zamora, Juan <j.eiros-zamora14 at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I use Chimera to visualize MD trajectories. Usually I launch the program through the command line. I’ve got a pretty deep hierarchy of directories to keep my data organized, so I’ve been trying to look for a way to make Chimera keep the path of the directory where I launched it from, with no success. 
> 
> What I mean is, if I launch it from a given directory and then try to load MD NetCDF files with the “MD Movie” option, is there a way for it to show me the files in the directory where I opened it from?. Because now what it does is show me the ones from the last time I used this. 

There’s a preference for this.  In the General category of Preferences (Favorites->Preferences) change “Open dialog starts in directory from last session” from true to false.  Assuming you want it to apply to future uses of Chimera, click Save.

—Eric

	Eric Pettersen
	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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