Hi Liz,

This is going to sound odd, but the first thing to try is to turn multisampling off.  You do that from the Effects tab of the Side View.  If that doesn’t immediately fix it, click Save on the Side View, quit Chimera, and start a new one.  If that doesn’t fix it, then you need to quit Chimera and then remove your preferences file.  It’s named “preferences” and is located in a folder named “.chimera” in your home directory.  If you know how to use the Unix command line then removing it is simple: “rm ~/.chimera/preferences”.  If you have to use the Finder then it’s a little trickier but not too bad:

1) In the Finder’s “Go” menu choose “Go To Folder…”

2) Type in “~/.chimera”

This should reveal the preferences file which you can remove with normal Finder-like things.

—Eric

Eric Pettersen

UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

On Nov 19, 2015, at 11:27 AM, liz kellogg <lizkellogg@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I've been using chimera quite happily for the past couple of years. I especially like the command line, as it makes operations much faster to complete (once you know the commands!)
I've been using the command-line, in chimera, on my mac (osx yosemite version 10.10.3) for a while now, but just today my command-line would not display the text I'm entering into the command-line bar. This is odd, I've never seen this before, and I don't know what the problem is due to. I tried restarting chimera, I tried restarting my computer, and I tried re-installing chimera, but the command-line prompt is the same.. it doesn't display the text as I'm entering it.. though if I type a command, it does execute it and it shows up in the command history.. so it looks like a problem in displaying text as it's being entered.

Has anyone else run into this problem? And how do you fix it? I'd be so much happier if I could see what I'm typing!

thanks

Liz
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