ChimeraX Developer Meeting

Attendance: Tom, Eric

July 20, 2026

Agenda

• Inside ribbon color.
• Work in progress reports.
• Toolshed reduce check for updates result size.
• Make Chimera end-of-life bug report and registration changes.

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Discussion

• GPUs for student classes
  • Discussed recent CoreHPC meeting and email about how to get GPUs for macromethods structure prediction course.
  • Discussed CoreHPC and FAC having no internet access due to P4 data security.
  • Our 8 L40S and 4 A40 GPUs on a private network would be hard for a class to access. Would need plato accounts and my run afoul of UCSF ITOM rules.

• Documentation without Elaine
  • Eric working on axisalign command documentation.
  • Unclear what command name should be or how to clearly explain some options in the documentation.

• Qt bugs only found in ChimeraX
  • Tom searched for some ChimeraX Qt bugs related to Mac accessibility calls and almost all Google hits are from ChimeraX Trac.
  • Cocoa / Carbon key code error has 15 google hits from ChimeraX, and just a few from other programs.
  • Accessibility event invalid was just found in ChimeraX.

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Action Items