How do you make it so that advanced viewer pops up automatically when you download second life 2.0?

[Payton Avon]

How do you make it so that advanced viewer pops up automatically when you download Second Life 2.0?  I work for a college campus that uses Second Life.  We have it installed on all computers on campus but they have to switch from basic to advanced every time a class wants to use Second Life.  Currently basic viewer is poping up we need the advanced viewer to show up.  We also cannot use a different viewer due to needing to view the web on prims.  I could not find anything on the internet that answers this question.  Thanks!  Hope to hear back soon.  

 

I guess the problem is that we have many students logging into many different computers because this is for a college campus.  It is Second Life downloaded on the large scale.  We need student to not have to change to advanced at all.  It would be nice to have it start up on advanced because then to change to advanced confuses them and is one more step.  They need access to their inventory for classes on Second Life.  I am wondering what triggers Second Life to start up with basic mode so we can override that and change it to advanced viewer right away when we download the updates to the computers. 

 

Everytime we do an update we delete the old version off all the computers which forces them to switch back to basic mode.  Students get annoyed switching to advanced mode or forget then are really lost because the screen does not look the same. 

[Darren Scorpio]

Once you select advanced mode once, it should become the default option everytime you open the viewer, at least for me this is true.

[Peewee Musytari]

I don`t think advanced can be set as default but you should only need to change it once. It should automatically be set to the mode that it was last used on.

[Rolig Loon]

The logical place to look would be at the command line parameters that you can use to customize your own client viewer exe file.  There are a number of standard ones already available for options like specifying multiple logins, or forced login to a preset destination.  You can also map your own command line parameters by just starting with any of the debug settings on the Advanced (CTRL + Alt + D) menu.  Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a debug setting for AdvancedMode yet, or if there is one it hasn't been published.

(This is a VERY good suggestion for someone to carry to a Linden at one of the next OH times ---- PeeWee? >>> Lexie??)

[Ansariel Hiller]

Apparently the only way to achieve this is by manually changing the order of the elements in the combobox for the viewer in the skin definition file. The file that needs to be changed is skins/default/xui/en/panel_login.xml

Revert the order of the following items so that advanced is first.

 

<combo_box.item  label="Basic"  name="Basic"  value="settings_minimal.xml" /><combo_box.item  label="Advanced"  name="Advanced"  value="" />

This should set advanced mode as initially selected mode if the current user hasn't run SL on a specific computer. But since you talk about lots of PCs and lots of updates, I'm not quite sure if this method will be acceptable for you.

[Cerise Sorbet]

Hi, this is has a little cosmetic yuck in it, but it works.

First, see this wiki page to learn how to change viewer command line options, it works a little different on each operating system.

There is a new command line switch to choose the session settings file.

To force Basic mode, add --sessionsettings settings_minimal.xml to the command line.

To force Advanced mode, use the name of any file that does not exist in app_settings. For example --
--sessionsettings none

The cosmetic yuck is on the login page, the little menu will always say "Basic" if you have --sessionsettings on the command line. Don't worry about that, you will get the mode you asked for on the command line.

Adding -- there is a minor bug in this, once you force Advanced this way, you will only get back to Basic mode with  --sessionsettings settings_minimal.xml. Once you are in the real basic mode, you can remove the switch from the shortcut to restore the original switchable menu.

[Rolig Loon]

Yes! I knew there had to be a command line switch somewhere. Thanks, Cerise.