id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	notify_on_close	platform	project
1169	'new frame' trigger should still fire when no models open	Tristan Croll	Tom Goddard	"At the moment, unless I'm missing something there is no session trigger that fires regularly when ChimeraX is in its default start-up display state. That's a problem for (e.g.) the remote_control plugin, where what you really want to do is launch ChimeraX and start the xmlrpc server from the shell, then start sending commands. But since the server's `process_requests()` method is run on the 'new frame' trigger this doesn't work, and the client just hangs waiting for the request to be processed. 

My workaround for now is to have `ChimerxXMLRPCServer` create a simple sphere model on creation to get the graphics up and running, but it would be nice to have a more elegant way. Having the 'new frame' (or some new named trigger) fire once on every pass through the event loop would seem like a sensible solution."	defect	closed	moderate		Graphics		fixed		Eric Pettersen				all	ChimeraX