This is an ugly hack, but here goes:
1. Prior to opening coot, rename you .CCP4 folder. (bash: mv .CCP4
.CCP4_hidden)
2. Open coot. Do what you need to do.
3. Close coot.
4. Restore .CCP4 folder (bash: mv .CCP4_hidden .CCP4)
You can make a shortcut by putting this into your .bashrc
coot_no_ccp4_folders ()
{
mv ~/.CCP4 ~/.CCP4_hidden
coot
mv ~/.CCP4_hidden ~/.CCP4
}
Use with caution - if you mess up, you may lose all your CCP4 configuration.
This is not very convenient, since you cannot use ccp4 in the meantime - I
checked and the list of CCP4 folders does come up if you restore the CCP4
database folder while coot is still running. If you do use CCP4 in the
meantime, it will create an empty database, which is obviously not what you
want.
If you are into hacking the coot source (with proper apologies to Paul),
then find src/graphics-info.cc file in your coot source, go to
ccp4_defs_file_name method and mess with it in an obvious way - it returns
the path to your CCP4 database folder, so just change it to something
non-existent. Compile custom coot binaries as usual and see what happens.
It might break spectacularly in case this method is used in a way other
than getting the CCP4 project folders listed in the file opening dialog.
Or it may behave exactly as you wish. Live dangerously :)
My complaint about this feature is that it lists folder names, not project
names (I realize this might require customization of the dialog, so not
necessarily easy to fix). My habit is to create CCP4 projects as need and
name corresponding folders ccp4 inside another folder that holds the data.
As a result, I end up with a bunch of "ccp4" items in the list of folders,
which is unusable (I think it shows the full path if you hover over the
name, but that's not too helpful if you are looking for a particular
project. Of course, I should simply name folders in a more comprehensible
way.
HTH,
Ed.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Gerhard Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am having an issue with the "open file" dialogue in Coot:
>
> Apparently, there is some kind of connection between Coot and CCP4, which
> causes all the ccp4-project-directories to appear on the lefthand side
> under "places".
>
> Is there a way to avoid this - I have plenty of different CCP4-projects,
> many of them old, and I would like to use the space to manually link to
> relevant directories.
>
>
> I cannot manually remove these directories using the remove button (greyed
> out), and new directories can only be added manually to the very bottom of
> the list (and not moved up) - which is quite a way to scroll down, and not
> for quickly switching folders.
>
> I am on Kubuntu 16.04 LTS, but had this issue on openSUSE 13.2 as well. I
> have recently tried with Coot 0.8.7-pre (standalone) and 0.8.3 (installed
> through CCP4).
> I can see the folders even when I start standalone coot and do not source
> CCP4.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Gerhard
>
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>
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> Department of Biochemistry
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> United Kingdom
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