Hello Marina, I guess you mean the Command Line? That is where you would enter commands to do almost everything (not just open proteins). Command Line Interface: <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tools/cli.html> Anyway, if you mean the Command Line I'm guessing that in some earlier session you closed it and by accident changed the preferences so that it does not automatically appear. Try menu: Tools... General.. Command Line Interface to show it. Then, click into that tool and show its context menu (right-click, or if on Mac, Ctrl-click) and in the context menu make sure that "Start at ChimeraX Startup" has a check-mark next to it. That means that the preference is set so the tool should automatically appear whenever you start ChimeraX. Context menus: <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/window.html#context-menu> Or, another way to set this preference is to use the following command, but of course you would need to show the Command Line first so that you could enter it: ui autostart true "Command Line Interface" "ui" command: <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/ui.html> I hope this helps, Elaine
On Jan 22, 2024, at 2:48 AM, Marina Contel via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hello, A few days ago, I was using ChimeraX and the command bar to open proteins disappeared. I have tried everything including uninstalling it and installing it again, and I have no clue how to solve it. I was wondering if you could give me some guidelines to get it back. That will be amazing because I need to start working with it as soon as possible because I have an assignment to hand this week. Thanks in advance! Kind regards, Marina