Tool: Toolbar

The Toolbar across the top of the ChimeraX window contains icons for performing actions with a single click. Clicking an icon shows the executed command in the Log. See also: Actions menu, Basic Actions

Like other tools, the Toolbar can be started from the Tools menu (more...). It is organized into several tabbed sections:

• Home   [...]
  
  
• Molecule Display: 
  
  
• Nucleotides: 
  
  
• Graphics: 
  
  
• Map: 
  
  
• Medical Image: 
  
  
• Markers – button-function assignments related to markers: 
  
  
• Right Mouse – button-function assignments: 

Each tab is further organized into sections with names. Icon sections that would extend beyond the current window width can be disclosed by clicking the double arrowhead at the right end of the Toolbar. The tabs are all part of the same tool and cannot be dragged apart, unlike tabs for separate tools that were previously dragged on top of each other (see panel manipulation).

The Toolbar context menu includes:

• Settings... preferences for customizing the Home tab
• Show button labels – whether to show individual icon descriptions
• Show section labels – whether to show icon section names

The Home tab of the Toolbar is customizable and may include the following icons in addition to those from other tabs:

icon	description	command equivalent
	open file	open browse
	toggle main window between 3D graphics and recent files (Rapid Access)	(none; same as clicking bottom right icons  )
	save file	save browse
	save snapshot of main window	save ~/Desktop/imageN.png supersample 3 (N = 1,2, ...; to change the save location, see snapshot)
	make spin movie	movie record; turn y 2 180; wait; movie encode ~/Desktop/movieN.mp4 (N = 1,2, ...; to change the save location, see snapshot)
	open the Selection Inspector	tool show "Selection Inspector"
	close models	close
	exit	exit
	undo	undo
	redo	redo

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Toolbar Settings (Preferences)

Choosing Settings... from the Toolbar context menu opens a dialog for customizing the Home tab. In this dialog:

• individual icons or sections (groupings of icons with text descriptions) can be dragged from the “available” list on the right to the Home tab list on the left. Sections can be in any order, but a section cannot be inside another section.
• icons and sections in the Home tab can be reordered by dragging
• text descriptions of icons and sections in the Home tab can be edited
• section checkboxes indicate whether a compact layout is used

Changes are applied immediately; however, clicking Save is required to save the current settings as preferences. Reset returns the Home tab to its “factory” defaults, whereas Restore applies any previously saved settings.