Fwd: [XMakemol-discuss] No ellipses ...

[Matt Hodges]

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From: Matt Hodges <address@hidden>
Date: 1 June 2010 08:32
Subject: Re: [XMakemol-discuss] No ellipses ...
To: Berger Raphael <address@hidden>


> for some reason I fail continously to display the ellipses. What I do is:
> xmakemol -f ellipse.xyz
[...]
> But i just get 3 red circles... :-(
> I'm using version 5.16 on a 32-bit debian system.
> What am I doing wrong? Thanks for suggestiones!

Perhaps you don't have GL rendering enabled.  Note that Debian has
xmakemol and xmakemol-gl packages, where the latter has the GL
rendering built in and enabled by default.

You will probably also want to turn on the lighting in the Edit->GL
rendering dialog.

Regards,
Matt