On Oct 30, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Chin-Hsien (Emily) Tai wrote:

One quick question, is there any way to have several sessions of Chimera running at the same time so that we can compare/rotate different domain parsing results of the same structure at the same time?

Hi Emily, I assume you are using a Mac... Yes, you can have multiple Chimera instances, as many as you want, if you start Chimera from the Terminal window. For example, I have Chimera version 1.2540 installed as /Applications/Chimera2540, so to start it from Terminal I would type: /Applications/Chimera2540.app/Contents/MacOS/chimera Actually I don't really type that because it is too troublesome, and instead have an alias in my home directory .tcshrc file (or .cshrc file). If you don't have either of these files you can just create a file by that name in your home directory and put the alias in it, in my case: alias chimera /Applications/Chimera2540.app/Contents/MacOS/chimera Then after you source that file or log in again, simply typing "chimera" (or whatever you used as the alias) starts Chimera. In a second Terminal window, you can enter "chimera" for a second running Chimera, etc. I have multiple different Chimera versions with different aliases, for example, a recent daily build is on my Desktop: alias chinew ~/Desktop/Chimera.app/Contents/MacOS/chimera Even if you have only one version, you can start it as many times as you want from different Terminal windows. I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. meng@cgl.ucsf.edu UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html