-h, -help
gives a short description of
possible command line arguments.
-verbose
turns on verbose output (incl. IPC
communication); use it to locate VRweb crashes (if they should ever
happen...) and include the output in the bug report
-lang[uage] lg
sets the language of the user interface
to one of
[english|german|french|italian|spanish|korean|japanese|styrian].
There are currently no plans for supporting other languages. Please, send bug reports or information requests in English or German only.
-URL url
base URL for relative references (typically
set via -URL %u in ~/.mailcap).
-remote file
open file in a running VRweb instance or
create a new VRweb window if none found. It is not possible to
redirect stdinput to a remote instance. However the optional FILE
argument after all options allows this using a -.
-getRemoteID
determines the X11 window ID of a running
VRweb instance or 0x0 if none found. Exits afterwards.
-remoteViewpoint
make a running VRweb instance jump to
a named viewpoint, defined with argument -URL _baseurl_#camera, and
exit.
-helpDir dir
directory or URL where to find on-line
help files. Defaults to ~/.vrweb/help.
-fontDir dir
directory of VRweb font files. Defaults
to ~/.vrweb/fonts.
-bg3d color
set scene background color. Color
specified as for -bg.
-draw[mode]
select the initial drawing mode to be one of
[wireframe|hiddenline|flat|smooth|texturing]
-intdraw[mode]
selects the interactive drawing mode to be one of the list above
or same to use the same mode during navigation too.
-speed
sets an (overall) speed factor for navigation
-alphaplanes
inquire visual with alpha-bitplanes.
Their use in VRweb is limited to the "quality polygon antialiasing"
option (OpenGL version). They are not needed for transparency.
-mesabackbuf
selects the backbuffer for Mesa to be one of
[pixmap|image|auto]. Pixmap transfers each drawing
command immediately to the XServer. Image causes all drawings to be
made into an XImage, which is transfered to the XServer when complete;
shared memory usage (only available when displayed locally) makes this
transfer fast. The default setting auto uses image for shaded views
and pixmap for wireframes.
-singlebuf
turns off double buffering for 3D
renderings. Usually slower than double buffering. OpenGL however may
provide a X-visual with greater depth.
-indirect
render OpenGL through X-server (slower).
-mosaic
use mosaic for anchor requests and on-line help
(else netscape).
-local
force WWWInline and Texture2 to be searched as local files.
The following command line options are common to all InterViews applications:
-bg background, -fg foreground, -flat
col
select the color for background, foreground and flat GUI
elements respectively. Specify colors with symbolic names (white,
black, green etc.) or hexadecimal RGB values: #RRGGBB
(you can get them also from the color chooser).
-font fn
selects the font or fontset. See
SceneViewer.ad for details.
-display dis
the display where VRweb should be shown. Normally
determined by environment variable $DISPLAY.
-visual vClass
selects the visual class. Valid settings are:
PseudoColor, TrueColor, DirectColor, StaticGray, GrayScale, StaticColor. Normally
VRweb uses the default visual to avoid color map flashing ("technicolor").
-visual_id 0xID
selects a visual id for the window. See
xdpyinfo for visual-ids available on your XServer.
-dbuf, -nodbuf
turns on (default) or off (less memory
usage) double buffering for GUI elements.
-sgimotif, -motif, -openlook
selects the GUI style to be SGI-like Motif (default), "normal" Motif
or OpenLook.
-xrm '*attribute:value'
specifies an arbitrary
Xattribute on commandline.
VRweb follows the naming scheme of Xdefaults for Harmony, the HyperWave authoring tool for Unix/X11 (Hyper-G client). The place of VRweb in the resource hierarchy is
Harmony.Scene
Please refer to file SceneViewer.ad in the UNIX
distribution of VRweb, for a list of Xattributes recognized by VRweb
and their default values.
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