(Forgot to reply to list as well.)

Hi Austin,

What's your alias?  chimera should *not* be on your PATH, it expects to find its version of various system libraries.  Instead put a symbolic link to CHIMERA/bin/chimera in one of the directories on your PATH.  Not sure what you mean about two threads, a screenshot would help.

    HTH,

    Greg

On 03/19/2013 12:31 PM, Austin B. Yongye wrote:
Hello Chimera users,
I just installed version 1.7 on my centos v5.4 machine. When I launch it using an alias, there is a splash across my entire screen and two threads are shown on the bottom panel. This splash persists for long, and I get the usual GUI only after switching between the two threads a couple of times. When I proceed to open a structure, nothing shows up on the GUI though it says a structure has been opened.
All these problems go away when I launch chimera directly from the installation directory.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
Austin-