On May 12, 2020, at 1:36 PM, Guillaume Gaullier <guillaume@gaullier.org> wrote:

Hi Tom,

I believe the Linux equivalent of macOS’ "open" is "xdg-open". See https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-utils/

At least it is the most likely to be present on a Linux distribution (it comes with all major desktop environments), but you probably won’t be surprised to learn that there are several different programs doing the same thing, as explained here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Default_applications

Cheers,

Guillaume

On 12 May 2020, at 20:14, Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net> wrote:

Hi Jerome,

  We don't have the chimerax --send option to open files in an already running ChimeraX, although we plan on adding it.

  I have two ideas for how to do this in current ChimeraX.  One is to use the remotecontrol command to tell ChimeraX to accept commands via http.  In ChimeraX I enable this with command

remote rest start port 58123

Then http requests can run commands in ChimeraX.  The http url can be entered in a web browser or from a script.  From a script you could use curl or wget programs, for example,

curl http://localhost:58123/run?command=open+/Users/goddard/Downloads/ChimeraX/PDB/1a0m.cif

You could make ChimeraX alway enable http requests by putting the "remote..." command in ChimeraX Settings/Preferences under the Startup tab "Execute these commands at startup".

  The other idea I have is simpler but did not work in my test.  ChimeraX accepts files dragged and dropped on the application.  On macOS (and probably Linux and Windows) I should be able to run a shell command that says drop this file on ChimeraX.  On Mac the shell command looks like

% open -a /Applications/ChimeraX.app ~/Downloads/ChimeraX/PDB/1a0m.cif 

That worked for starting ChimeraX and showing the first file.  But when I run it again to open a different it merely raised ChimeraX and did not open the new file.  That is a bug.  I've made a bug report for it.  I don't know the equivalent commands on Linux and Windows and whether the would work.

Tom

On May 12, 2020, at 1:50 AM, Jerome Mutterer <jerome.mutterer@ibmp-cnrs.unistra.fr> wrote:

Dear all,

I'm trying to transition from Chimera to ChimeraX, but my workflow relies on passing scripts to an open, with GUI, instance of Chimera using --send 

https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/options.html#send

I see that this is not described here:

https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/devel/apps/ChimeraX/ChimeraX.html

Is that still available somehow in ChimeraX?

Thanks for any input.

Sincerely,

Jerome.

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Jerome Mutterer

CNRS - Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes

12, rue du Général Zimmer

67084 Strasbourg Cedex

www.ibmp.cnrs.fr

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