Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Viewer Startup Options

There is a couple of startup options which seem to unknown to most (I accidentally discovered them when working with the source code), but which may be helpful nonetheless. They are appended to the target field in the icon which you use to start the viewer (right-click, properties, shortcut, target), e.g. "c:\program files\secondlife\nicholaz.exe" -autologin to change the behavior of the viewer at startup.


-login {first} {last} {password}
log in as a user
-autologin
log in as last saved user
-loginuri {URI}
login server and CGI script to use
-helperuri {URI}
helper web CGI prefix to use
-settings {filename}
specify the filename of a configuration file default is settings.xml
-setdefault {variable} {value}
specify the value of a particular configuration variable which can be overridden by settings.xml
-set {variable} {value}
specify the value of a particular configuration variable that overrides all other settings
-user {user_server_ip}
specify userserver in dotted quad
-god
log in as god if you have god access
-purge
delete files in cache
-safe
reset preferences, run in safe mode
-noutc
logs in local time, not UTC
-nothread
run vfs in single thread
-noinvlib
Do not request inventory library
-multiple
allow multiple viewers
-nomultiple
block multiple viewers
-ignorepixeldepth
ignore pixel depth settings
-cooperative [ms]
yield some idle time to local host
-skin
ui/branding skin folder to use
-noprobe
disable hardware probe
-noquicktime
disable QuickTime movies, speeds startup
-nopreload
don't preload UI images or sounds, speeds startup

7 comments:

Peter Stindberg said...

I'm surprised you obviously don't know https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Client_parameters

My personal favourite - apart from multiple - is noinvlib. Makes it much cleaner.

Bob Bunderfeld said...

We are just missing the following:

-nobugs

Anonymous said...

Have you seen the LL blog lately?

Nicholaz "The Mad Patcher" Beresford said...

peter: actually I didn't know that link ... :-)

bob: LOL ... if it was just that easy

anonymous: Ooops, knew about the contest but didn't see the blog post ... will read in detail (but the contest was largely ignore so far, so it's a good idea).

Tillie Ariantho said...

Going to vote for you! I have a MacBook Pro too, and I think you have earned one for all the work. :)

Tillie Ariantho said...

@bob bunderfeld: how about -novoice .-)

Nicholaz "The Mad Patcher" Beresford said...

Tillie: I've never owned a laptop which was not an IBM, but if it happens, I guess I'll get used to it (and someone suggested this was a conspiracy by Lindens to make me fix bugs on the Mac too :-))


)) -novoice ((

Torley will hate me for this, but I'd like to see -nowindlight then :-)