Avogadro version: 1.99.0 Nightly Build 11/4/2024
Operating system and version: Windows 11 Pro Version 10.0.22631
Expected Behavior
Using the ‘Split Horizontal’ or ‘Split Vertical’ option should create a window that has a background (and potentially inherits the rendering options from the main window)
Actual Behavior
New windows have no background (transparent, can see whatever application is open beneath it)
Yeah, splitting my screen works fine, but it has a transparent background. All it needs is for the background color to default to black. It would be nice if it could just inherit the display settings from the existing screen, but tbh all I really want is the background.
It’s usually comparing reactant and product structures for NEB calculations. A critical part of that is making sure that the ordering of the atoms in the coordinate file is the same for both, otherwise the calculation fails. By opening up two windows and coloring the atoms in the molecule by their atomic index, I can align the structures and verify that everything is in the right order before I start a calculation. I just so happened to have been doing this not too long ago, so here you can see how it looks.
I also use it to verify that, in the case of the calculations I run, that the reactant and product structures are symmetric, so I pull up the reactant structure in one window and the product in the other and can rotate the product until it matches the reactant. Here you can see that while the colors are the opposite, the geometry is identical.