hi Elaine Yap, it helps. Thanks so much. Yang Quoting Elaine Meng <meng@cgl.ucsf.edu>:

On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:45 AM, ylei@ecs.umass.edu wrote:

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Dear all Could somebody tell me how to run Chimera in terminal on the system of mac? Thanks. Yang

Hi Yang, It is described in the User's Guide page on Chimera startup:

<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/framecore.html>

See the part about Mac OS X. To summarize, if Chimera is installed as /Applications/Chimera , to start it from Terminal you would type:

/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/MacOS/chimera

(or if it is in a different place or you gave it a different name, substitute those instead). Since that is kind of a long thing to type, you may want to make an alias. My aliases are in the file named .tcshrc in my home directory on the mac, but the filename could be different depending on what shell you are using (maybe .bashrc or .cshrc or something like that).

I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco