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How do you get two second life windows open
Jason Velasquez
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01-30-2009 19:17
How do you get two second life windows open so i can have two alts on at once on one computer? I used to know how but forgot what to type exactly. I know you make a shortcut to the viewer on your desk top. you go into preferences and type multiple and a dash and maybe something else in front of it.
Jesse Barnett
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01-30-2009 19:22
Right click the icon that starts Second Life and pick "Properties".

The top line will say "Target". At the end of that address add a space and then -multiple, like this:

" -multiple" (without the quotation marks)
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01-30-2009 20:09
From: The top line will say "Target". At the end of that address add a space and then -multiple, like this:

" -multiple" (without the quotation marks)[/QUOTE


On mine I had two put two dashes to work for some reason " --multiple"
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01-30-2009 20:11
From: Coldfire Nightfire
From: The top line will say "Target". At the end of that address add a space and then -multiple, like this:

" -multiple" (without the quotation marks)[/QUOTE


On mine I had two put two dashes to work for some reason " --multiple"

Ooops sorry about that. That's what us old people get for trying to do it from memory!
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01-30-2009 20:12
If you find that you start crashing after 10 to 15 minutes online with two accounts running; take and half you network setting in each window.
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01-30-2009 22:32
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Client_parameters
has other fun parameters to use for quick automatic logins
I use
-multiple -noprobe -login <firstname> <lastname> <password>

don't use -login if you are on a shared computer, as anyone that can see the shortcut, can see the password.
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MoiselleErin Teardrop
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01-30-2009 23:11
Well that seemed to work but yes it bogs things down even worse.
My two alts would not quit fighting.
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01-31-2009 01:52
Mine has only ever needed one hyphen. Two may work, but I've never tried it. I wonder why there are differences, or maybe it's either/or for us all.
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A brilliant thread !!
01-31-2009 03:42
Extremely useful info spent ages photoing myself and my alt today something Id been trying to do for ages.

Thanks !!!
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01-31-2009 05:29
one hyphen but a space before it!!
Yup, multiple avies can be fun ... expensive .. but fun :)
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June Oh
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01-31-2009 08:19
I can get it to work on the Normal Viewer but not on RC Viewer.
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pinky Lednev
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01-31-2009 09:59
Also works with -multi :)
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01-31-2009 10:05
From: bilbo99 Emu
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Yup, multiple avies can be fun ... expensive .. but fun :)
Freebies, man -- freebies are the bomb

I have only ever spent money on two of my accounts - my original which I don't really use any more 9and darn it has tons of no-transfer clothing) and this account. The other two nabbed some freebies and that is all they get. Hell, they seldom are even allowed out of the house.
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01-31-2009 10:16
I just tested it with the Release Candidate, and it worked.

June, perhaps you failed to leave a space, typed multiple wrong, inserted a space between the dash and the M, added it to the wrong field, needed two dashes instead of one, etc.
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DrugPilot Bayn
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02-03-2009 12:50
Awesome. I didn't know that I could run two avi's at the same time. Just tried it out, worked fine. Thanks for the suggestion.
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02-03-2009 13:11
It used to only be single-dash, then someone pointed them at "getopt" which follows the GNU convention (single dash for single-character options, two dash for multi-character options*). I guess they now accept both ways.

* eg "tar -vxf file.tar" vs "tar --verbose --extract --file=file.tar".

PS: bringing more than two avatars into the same sim at the same time requires a bit more work.
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02-03-2009 13:13
From: LittleMe Jewell
Freebies, man -- freebies are the bomb

I have only ever spent money on two of my accounts - my original which I don't really use any more 9and darn it has tons of no-transfer clothing) and this account. The other two nabbed some freebies and that is all they get. Hell, they seldom are even allowed out of the house.


You’re a lot a help :mad:
Thadius Warwillow
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11-13-2009 14:51
I have tried this with both one and two -- dashes, It allows me to open the first window. But the second one reads

Error could not establish connection
error 3
please checck your network connection.

I have highspeed internet, and 4 gb, so i am not sure what i am doing wrong.
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11-13-2009 15:13
If you're behind a firewall router, turn off the packet filtering firewall and just use NAT.
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Kobi Ember
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11-13-2009 17:25
I think you can also run two screens by going into advanced (CTRL+ALT+D) then Debug settings then choose allow multiple viewers from the drop down box and set it to true. This seems to work for me.
Callista Ronas
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11-15-2009 06:53
I actually use the emerald browser and it lets me do this without any issues. I have had both avatars going at once which is confusing for ppl who know both. Tee Hee!
June Oh
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11-15-2009 08:14
From: Callista Ronas
I actually use the emerald browser and it lets me do this without any issues. I have had both avatars going at once which is confusing for ppl who know both. Tee Hee!

Do they both Chat?
Lol
Talking to yourself!

June