[PyMOL] running macpymol in the background from the terminal

[Andrew W. <sen...@gm...>]

hello,

I'm running MacPyMol 0.99.  I typically open pymol from the terminal (
terminal.app) using the "open" command.

> open test.pdb

I have .pdb files set to open with MacPyMol, so graphicConverter doesn't
open when I do this.  The problem I have when doing this is that when
entering the "pwd" command into pymol, I get the following:

PyMOL> pwd
/

so pymol thinks it's running from the root directory.  This makes it tough
for me to load more pdbfiles into pymol using the "load" command as I must
first "cd" into the directory with pymol.  Just a note, that in version 0.9=
8,
using the "open" command, pymol would recognize what directory it was opene=
d
from.

Now, I can use the "pymol test.pdb" to open pdbfiles, but then the terminal
gets the output from pymol.  I've tried to run pymol in the background so
that I can continue to use this terminal window while stilll having pymol
open.  Using "pymol test.pdb &" I still get pymol output to the terminal.  =
I
could use "pymol test.pdb >& /dev/null &" but that seems quite a bit more
verbose compared to "open test.pdb"

I guess I could alias pymol to essentially pipe it's output to /dev/null bu=
t
since version 0.98 worked fine, I was wondering if anyone has a workaround
for this inconvenience.

Thanks.

- Andrew Wollacott