To alter the MAE environment use one of these command line arguments when you start MAE. These command line arguments, listed below, are invoked when MAE starts up.
-display dpy
X server on which to display
EXAMPLE: -display opus:0.0
-geometry WxH+X+Y
size and location of window (Mae.geometry)
EXAMPLE: -geometry 600x400+4+4
-iconic
start iconic (Mae.iconic)
-title string
title string (Mae.title)
-sysfol systemfolder
System Folder path (Mae.systemFolder)
EXAMPLE /tmp/sys
-appledir appledirectory
Apple resource directory path (Mae.appleDirectory)
EXAMPLE /opt/apple
This is the location of the apple directory
-memory memorysize
Macintosh memory size in megabytes (m = megabytes, k = kilobytes)
EXAMPLE -memory 17m
-maxdepth bitdepth
maximum frame buffer bit depth (Mae.maximumDepth)
-installcmap
force the installation of X colormap (Mae.installColormap)
-caseon
force case sensitivity (Mae.caseOn)
-nosound
turn off sound (Mae.noSound)
-filedouble
force Apple Double file format (Mae.fileDouble)
This is helpful when UNIX applications attempt to open files that were saved or copied from within MAE. See also asdtool.
-fstimeout
set file system timeout interval (Mae.fsTimeout)
EXAMPLE: -fstimeout 60
Useful if HOME is NFS Mounted, and Patch 2 does not fix errors such as 'Unable to access .mac'
-noextensions
startup with no Extensions
-rebuild
rebuild Desktop database
-zappram
zap VPRAM settings
-help
print out this message
-version
print out version information