thx also good to have something similar for focal, eye seperation, screen size and screen distance. Matthew Dougherty National Center for Macromolecular Imaging Baylor College of Medicine ________________________________________ From: Eric Pettersen [pett@cgl.ucsf.edu] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 5:33 PM To: chimera-dev@cgl.ucsf.edu BB Cc: Dougherty, Matthew T Subject: Re: [chimera-dev] [Chimera-users] keyboard shortcuts On Dec 31, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net<mailto:goddard@sonic.net>> wrote: Currently there is no command to set background transparency. We should add a "set backgroundTransparency true|false" command to do this so you can put it in a script. It will call the setBackgroundOpacity() routine in chimera/printer.py. Until that is added you could use a little Python script transpbg.py: from chimera import printer printer.setBackgroundOpacity(True) and call it from your movie command script with "open transpbg.py" I have added this command and it will be in tonight's build, except that it is called "set bgTransparency" (instead of "set backgroundTransparency"), similar to "set bgColor". --Eric Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu