Default configurationΒΆ

pNbody uses a set of parameters files, color tables and formats files. These files are provided by the installation and are by default stored in the directory site-packages/pNbody/config. To display where these files are taken from, you can use the command:

pNbody_show-path

It is recommanded that the user uses its own configuration files. To be automatically recongnized by pNbody, the latter must be in the user ~/.pNbody directory. pNbody provides a simple command to copy all parameters in this directory. Simply type:

pNbody_copy-defaultconfig

and check the values of the new paths:

pNbody_show-path

You can now freely modify the files contains in the configuratio directory.

By default, the content of the configuration directory is:

name

type

Content

defaultparameters

file

the default graphical parameters used by pNbody

unitsparameters

file

the default units parameters used by pNbody

formats

directory

specific class definition files used to read different file formats

extensions

directory

extent the default pNbody class with new methods (see my_default_extension.py)

rgb_tables

directory

color tables

plugins

directory

optional plugins

opt

directory

optional files