Customizing Sirius

Many aspects of the desktop environment can be customized using the Preferences dialog that can be accessed via Viewers->Preferences menu. It contains four tabs specific to different types of settings. Current settings can be exported to a file that can be later read back in or transferred to another system running Sirius. Also, all options can be set to initial defaults.

Topics

This section covers preferences and changes to default settings in Sirius.

Startup Options Set various properties as you would like them to be when the application is started. These include default working directory, selection color, rendering styles, etc.

Structure Viewer Preferences specific to the structure visualization component.

Sequence Viewer Preferences for the Sequence Viewer

Other settings Various performance-related and general application settings.