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Anchi Cheng, 02/02/2011 12:24 PM

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# Register as a Leginon user and then copy and personalize your configuration file before your first use.





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** Leginon guru: See [[Recommendation for setup at a new institute]]





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** Regular Users: Refer to [[Set up for a new regular user|Set up for a new regular user]] in "Administration Tools" Chapter.





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#  start-leginon.py (From any directory for Linux)





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from Start Menu: \Start\Programs\Leginon> Leginon (on Windows)





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#  Leginon Setup Wizard> select "Create session" in session type if a new session is needed.





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**  Fill in session name and comments. Comments will appear in the Web Viewers





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**  Select instrument and project, if project database is used. Image path is automatically selected.





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**  Image path is automatically selected based on your leginon.cfg file.





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#  Leginon Setup Wizard> No need to edit client list as the computer where the program is started is automated added.





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#  Choose "Finish" in the set up wizard to start the session.





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#  Leginon/Application/Run> select Manual Application.





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#  Leginon> From the list of nodes on the left panel, select Manual node.





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** SimuTEM and SimuCCDCamera should be available for selection.





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** Acquisition/Camera Configuration- use one of the preconfigured selection for binning and size such 512x8.





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check your [[Configure leginon.cfg|leginon.cfg]], [[Configure sinedon.cfg|sinedon.cfg]], [[Web Server Installation|config.php]] as outlined in





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Troubleshooting]], and the "Leginon Forum":http://emg.nysbc.org/projects/leginon/boards/6 or  "Web Tools Forum":http://emg.nysbc.org/projects/leginon/boards/10  such as the topic " "information not saved to db":http://emg.nysbc.org/boards/10/topics/686"





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[[Test Leginon on the Computer Controlling the Microscope|Test Leginon on the Computer Controlling the Microscope >]]





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