FYI, the reason that the ubuntu pymol 2.1.0 package currently doesn't
use the PyQT interface in the presence of the libqt5opengl5 package is that
they are hard coding pymol to use pmg_tk with the patch...
$ cat 50_force_tk.patch
Description: Disable the Qt interface to ensure the Tk interface
If you don't want GLUT to be linked in as a fallback, compile with --no-glut
(See https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Linux_Install#Compile_and_install )
Tcl/Tk could be loaded if there is an activated plugin which imports it. PyMOL
does some trickery to provide the event loop for Tkinter from the
On 16-Oct-2018 00:07, Thomas Holder wrote:
On Oct 15, 2018, at 9:38 PM, David Mathog wrote:
There must be something about Qt that is a significant improvement
over Tk/Tcl - where/what is that?
It's not only Tk/Tcl, it's also GLUT which got replaced.
GLUT still seems to be there though,
Hi Itamar,
> On Oct 16, 2018, at 7:44 AM, Itamar Kass wrote:
>
> I have used the one from the ubuntu repositories. Is it preferably to
> manually compile it?
Preferable is to use Schrödinger-provided bundles from https://pymol.org/ ;-)
If the Ubuntu-provided bundle isn't working as you
> On Oct 15, 2018, at 9:38 PM, David Mathog wrote:
>
> There must be something about Qt that is a significant improvement over
> Tk/Tcl - where/what is that?
It's not only Tk/Tcl, it's also GLUT which got replaced. So on the pure
"bug-fix list", we have:
- HiDPI support (we've seen unusable
Dear Thomas,
I have used the one from the ubuntu repositories. Is it preferably to
manually compile it?
All the best,
Itamar
> Hi Itamar,
>
> Have you compiled PyMOL yourself? If yes, have you installed PyQt5? See
> https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Linux_Install#Requirements
>
> Cheers,
>
On 15-Oct-2018 05:44, Thomas Holder wrote:
Hi Itamar,
Have you compiled PyMOL yourself? If yes, have you installed PyQt5?
See https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Linux_Install#Requirements
When 2.3.0a was built on Linux using the wiki's build method there were
no issues getting it to pick up
Hi Itamar,
Have you compiled PyMOL yourself? If yes, have you installed PyQt5? See
https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Linux_Install#Requirements
Cheers,
Thomas
> On Oct 10, 2018, at 9:11 AM, Itamar Kass wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using Pymol 2.1.0 on Ubuntu 18.04. When run, it opens two windows
