Hi Hernando, Not sure I understand this question, because there is no “inactive” status of the ChimeraX toolbar icons. When I use ChimeraX, these icons always look the same and can be clicked, even when nothing is open. It doesn’t require selecting, unless you want to limit the action to some subset of what is open. I assume you are referring to the icons described here: <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tools/moldisplay.html> If you could send a screenshot of the ChimeraX window with this problem, maybe that would help. However, the icons are just shortcuts to commands. After opening your atomic structure, you could try entering the ChimeraX command “surface” and seeing if that works. <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/surface.html> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Chimera(X) team Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco
On Aug 19, 2017, at 10:32 AM, Hernando J Sosa <hernando.sosa@einstein.yu.edu> wrote:
Hi, I am trying to use Chimera-X t for solvent-accessible-surface display (in my system surface display fails almost every time in Chimera). I managed to get it to work in Chimer-X once but now when I click the appropriate icon on the top in chimera-X menu this icon and most others (except the one to open files) are inactive. Is there anything that I should do to activate these icons? I am I missing something? I tried selecting the model that was opened but that didn't help. Thanks.