[chimerax-users] Question about use of ChimeraX

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Jonathan,
The system wouldn't know ChimeraX commands, but you could run ChimeraX from the system command line with startup options such as --nogui (no GUI) and input files such as ChimeraX command files (*.cxc).

Command-line startup
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/startup.html>

ChimeraX startup options  --nogui  etc.
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/options.html>

Input file types
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/open.html#formats>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Sep 6, 2021, at 7:16 PM, Jonathan Choong via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Hope you are doing well. I just had a question regarding ChimeraX that I was hoping to get some clarity on. I was wondering whether it was possible to use ChimeraX commands (such as open, run, save) in the system command line without actually opening the application interface? 
> 
> Thanks, hope to hear back from you. 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Jonathan