VRweb customization

VRweb

Command line arguments

-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
where lg is one of [english|german|spanish|styrian].
PS: If you know somebody willing to translate the interface to French or Italian, please drop us a short mail and I will send you the appropriate files. Your help would be much appreciated.

-URL url
base URL for relative references (typically set via -URL %u in ~/.mailcap).

-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. Note that transparent materials are only shown when blending is turned on (display option "anti-aliased lines") and will look wrong if polygons do not happen to be ordered from back to front. A correct implementation is in progress.

-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).

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, green etc.) or hexadecimal RGB values: #RRGGBB.

-font fn
selects the font.

-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.


X-Attributes

VRweb follows the naming scheme of Xdefaults for the Harmony Hyper-G client. The place of VRweb in the resource hierarchy is

Harmony.Scene

A complete list of Xdefaults recognized by VRweb and their default values will be available in a future version of this document.


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