On Jun 18, 2004, at 9:51 PM, Grant Jacobs wrote:
I've tried a few things -- seems Chimera is location-dependent. I place most of my applications in subdirectories of /Applications or ~/Applications (e.g. Text, Graphics, Science, etc.) to organise things a bit. A few apps. insist on being in /Applications - Chimera seems to be one of these. Your installation notes don't indicate this explicitly, but I suppose no many people insist on being so over-organised :-)
AFAIK, Chimera isn't normally location dependent. On my OS X 10.3.4 system at home, I can launch Chimera from the desktop, from my Documents folder, and from /Applications/Science (while named Chimera-1.1951 -- to test your exact situation as closely as possible) and was able to open models and the side view in each case without problem. Since you have found a solution that works for you, you may not want to pursue this any further. If you are willing however, you could create a guest account on your machine for our debugging use and convey the account name, password, and machine name to us privately. Then we could debug the problem without requiring much more of your time. Let us know.
While I'm writing, I presume Chimera insists on using its own version of python over anything installed in /usr/bin/python or whatever?
Pretty much. Several versions back, the Chimera installer would give you the option of having Chimera use the system version of Python -- but we found compatibility issues were just too much of a headache for both us and users to deal with, so the option isn't there anymore. Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab