Lothar uses the Chimera REST server to type Chimera commands in a web browser in the message below. Tom

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From: "Esser, Lothar (NIH/NCI) [E]" Subject: RE: Make command-line text bigger Date: April 29, 2020 at 10:32:30 AM PDT To: Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net>

Hi, First off, thanks for the alpha version. Transparency now works as expected – tested it on linux and windows 10. The commandline console in windows may not be the type of unix terminal that allows a program to get standard in from. However, I cobbled a simple html page with a big input line together and use chimera as REST server. That works well and I get the font as large as I need it thanks (in part) to the browser’s cntrl+/- functions.

Thank you so much. Have a great day. Lothar

From: Tom Goddard Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 8:41 PM To: Esser, Lothar (NIH/NCI) [E] Cc: chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu BB <chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Make command-line text bigger

Hi Lothar,

I don't know what problem you are encountering using ReadStdin on Windows. It may have something to do with Windows not allowing stdin/stdout for GUI apps. On Mac it seems to work, I include a little test of it below. But it looks like a horrible solution for your problem of small command-line text since it spews tons of output from the commands.

I don't know of a way to increase the Chimera command-line text size.

I often give presentations with ChimeraX (and in the past Chimera) where I want people to read the command-line text. But I also want them to be able to read the menu entries, the buttons I click, everything. And all those text items are about the same size. So what I do is make all the text bigger. I do this by simply lowering the display resolution. Maybe there is a better way on Windows, does Windows system settings allow you to increase all font sizes?

Of course when you make text twice as big the user interface crowds out the graphics. But there is no way to have everything.

Tom

goddard$ ~/bin/chimera open 1a0m CMD open 1a0m #0, chain A: α-conotoxin [TYR15]-epi

#0, chain B: α-conotoxin [TYR15]-epi

1a0m opened

END turn y 10 10 CMD turn y 10 10

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On Apr 28, 2020, at 5:24 PM, Esser, Lothar (NIH/NCI) [E] wrote:

Hi,

This is great. Thanks. Can I ask you one quick question ? I developed a presentation of chimera features on my Linux computer but have to use a Window10 laptop for a webex session. While I was able (with some effort) to run chimera from the Command Prompt Console, I cannot get the Tools->Utilities->ReadStdin to work. Is this expected ? Is there a workaround? The reason for that is that I want to show the commands in large fonts for people to read. The usual Chimera Command line has a very small font.... can that be configured to use a large font ?

Thanks, Lothar

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