Chapter 2. Command Line Options

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-Duser.language
-Ddisplay.speed
-Xmx

The Jmol program has a command line option to run scripts:

[--script]

. The current syntax is:

jmol [ --script { rasmol.script } ]

This makes it possible to start jmol with a Rasmol script. The syntax of these scripts is explained in RasMol/Chime Scripts.

Alternatively, Jmol can be started with one argument, being a file name:

jmol {file}

-Duser.language

In addition to the above command line options there is also one important Java option:

[-Duser.language]

. With this option the GUI language can be set. At this moment these languages are supported: de, en, es, fr, nl, and pl.

Alternatively, you can also use the LANG environment variable for setting the prefered language. This is common in many UNIX systems, like Linux. However, it is known not to work on Solaris and the above command line option must be used.