jmol (1)

jmol [options] [file]

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

Currently accepted options are:

-h, --help

Print help on the command line options.

-g WIDTHxHEIGHT, --geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT

Use window-geometry WIDTH x HEIGHT.

-s scriptfile, --script scriptfile

Run script scriptfile.

-Dproperty=value

Use value for the given property (for a list see below).

-Dcdk.debugging=booelan

Set debugging (default: false).

-Dcdk.debug.stdout=boolean

Set debug to stdout (default: false).

-Duser.language=LANG

Set user language (default: EN).

-Ddisplay.speed=fps|ms

Set display speed in milli seconds (ms) or frames per second (fps) (default: ms).

-DJmolConsole=boolean

Start with Jmol-console (default: true).

-Dplugin.dir=path

Set path to plugin directory (default: unset). By calling the shell wrapper /usr/bin/jmol, the directory is set to /usr/share/jmol. Plugins installed to ~/.jmol/plugins are automatically detected.

~/.jmol/plugins

Per-user plugin directory.

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

This manual page was written by Egon Willighagen <[email protected]> and Daniel Leidert <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others).