JMOL

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 14, 2021
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NAME

jmol - 3D molecule and crystal viewer

 

SYNOPSIS

jmol [options] [file]

 

DESCRIPTION

jmol is a program that is able to view 3D chemical information like molecular structures, vibrations of bonds or animations.

 

OPTIONS

-a,--autoanimationdelay <arg>
delay time in seconds for press-and-hold operation of toolbar animation buttons (default 0.2; numbers > 10 assumed to be milliseconds; set to 0 to disable)
-b,--backgroundtransparent
transparent background
-C,--checkload
check script syntax only - with file loading
-c,--check
check script syntax only - no file loading
-D,--property=value <arg>
supported options are given below
-d,--debug
debug
-G,--Plugin
jmol is a plugin to some other app
-g,--geometry <arg>
window width x height, e.g. -g500x500
-h,--help
give this help page
-I,--input
allow piping of input from System.Input
-i,--silent
silent startup operation
-J,--jmolscript1 <arg>
Jmol script to execute BEFORE -s option
-j,--jmolscript2 <arg>
Jmol script to execute AFTER -s option
-k,--kiosk
kiosk mode -- no frame
-L,--nosplash
start with no splash screen
-l,--list
list commands during script execution
-M,--multitouch <arg>
use multitouch interface (requires "sparshui" parameter
-m,--menu <arg>
menu file to use
-n,--nodisplay
no display (and also exit when done)
-o,--noconsole
no console -- all output to sysout
-P,--port <arg>
port for JSON/MolecularPlayground-style communication
-p,--printOnly
send only output from print messages to console (implies -i)
-q,--quality <arg>
JPG image quality (1-100; default 75) or PNG image compression (0-9; default 2, maximum compression 9)
-R,--restricted
restrict local file access
-r,--restrictSpt
restrict local file access (allow reading of SPT files)
-s,--script <arg>
script file to execute or '-' for
-T,--headlessmaxtime <arg>
headless max time (sec)
-t,--threaded
independent command thread
-U,--plugin <arg>
plugin to start initially
-w,--write <arg>
CLIP or GIF|JPG|JPG64|PNG|PPM:filename
-x,--exit
exit after script (implicit with -n)

 

EXAMPLE

jmol -ions myscript.spt -w JPEG:myfile.jpg > output.txt

The -D options are as follows (defaults in parenthesis) and must be called preceding '-jar /usr/share/java/Jmol.jar':

display.speed=[fps|ms] (ms)
logger.debug=[true|false] (false)
logger.error=[true|false] (true)
logger.fatal=[true|false] (true)
logger.info=[true|false] (true)
logger.logLevel=[true|false] (false)
logger.warn=[true|false] (true)
plugin.dir (unset)
user.language=[ca|cs|de|en_GB|en_US|es|fr|hu|it|ko|nl|pt_BR|tr|zh_TW] (en_US)

 

FILES

~/.jmol/plugins
Per-user plugin directory.

 

SEE ALSO

More information about JMol can be found at http://jmol.sourceforge.net/ and in /usr/share/doc/jmol/html (User-Guide).

 

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Egon Willighagen <egonw@users.sourceforge.net>, Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de> and Pierre Gruet <pgt@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others).


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLE
FILES
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS

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