From 2397d0150c2a4c76d2ed6b45d28c117bcabca5f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian Zills <46721498+PythonFZ@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 13:04:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] HowTo setup ZnDraw (#38)

---
 docs/source/concept/zndraw.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/source/concept/zndraw.rst b/docs/source/concept/zndraw.rst
index 3228a8e..08d83aa 100644
--- a/docs/source/concept/zndraw.rst
+++ b/docs/source/concept/zndraw.rst
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ You can find more information in the GUI by clicking on :code:`Python Access`.
 The :code:`vis` object behaves like a list of :term:`ASE` atom objects.
 Modifying them in place, will be reflected in real-time on the GUI.
 
+.. tip::
+
+   You can keep a ZnDraw instance running in the background and set the environment variable :code:`ZNDRAW_URL` to the URL of the running instance.
+   This way, you do not have to define a ZnDraw url when running ZnDraw or ``mlipx`` CLI commands.
+   You can also setup a `ZnDraw Docker container  <https://github.com/zincware/ZnDraw?tab=readme-ov-file#self-hosting>`_ to always have a running instance.
+
 .. code:: python
 
     from zndraw import ZnDraw