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).

                                        September 14, 2021                                JMOL(1)