Mouse Usage

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Move the mouse pointer over the structure and you will see the textual information about the atom covered by the pointer. This information will be visible in the output window (the bottom right corner of the main window).

The structure drawing mode is not the only mode where this trick may be used: try also Ramachandran plot, hydrophobicity plots and sequence comparison. The examples below show the content of the output window for all four cases:

Structure
display 		Ramachandran
plot 		Averaged
hydrophobicity 		Sequence
comparison

Since April 10. 2000 (garlic version 1.0 and later), mouse clicks may be used for rotations and translations and also for slab and color adjustment. Click on a selected button in a control window (top right corner of the main window). Shift, alt and control play the same role as if keyboard is used for the same job.

Some desktop environments (like KDE and Gnome) use function keys to launch popup menus or for some other purpose. This means that function keys F1, F2, F3 and F4 will not work properly with garlic. You can use mouse to click on dummy buttons in a control window. Another approach will be to change desktop environment settings.

Perhaps it will be good idea to use right mouse button for some kind of menu and left mouse button for selection. If you have some ideas, write to me. The address is: zucic@garlic.mefos.hr .