Tricks in VMD

Use the text-mode VMD just like bash!

//Currently it is only applied to VMD in Linux

Google rlwrap which is a readline wrapper, a small utility that uses the GNU readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any other command. It maintains a separate input history for each command, and can TAB-expand words using all previously seen words and/or a user-specified file. Install the program and type

rlwrap vmd -dispdev text

How to make default background color to white

Add the following lines to vmd.rc under the program directory of VMD

# color
color Display Background 8
color Display FPS 16
color Axes Labels 16

# display
display projection Orthographic; # Orthographic/Perspective

Note that the directory, with unknown reason, might be encrypted so you have to open it by typing vi vmd.rc in the Tk console.